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Does a bad vacuum pump make a noise?

Updated: 10/21/2022
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Mine did, that is how I new it was going out. A friend of mine that has an ambulance service heard it and warned me that it was going out. The brakes started to get hard also because the booster was not getting enough vacuum.

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