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    Botched brake booster install: solved, I'm just an idiot

    No problem. we all do it. each job gets easier and we get better. We also think that when one or two steps go wrong, we are derailed... more experience means more options and the ability to adapt more. knowledge/experience good investments.
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    Botched brake booster install: solved, I'm just an idiot

    Simple green ... but you probably got it in some of the insulation... wd-40 smell doesn't last in my experience.... or maybe my nose just adjusts. At least it isn't gear oil haha.
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    Botched brake booster install: solved, I'm just an idiot

    Nice. Enjoy the better braking! glad you finished off so you can wake up in the morning with a rested mind and double check your work for about 5 mins. and you will feel good about it. step six 🍻
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    Botched brake booster install: solved, I'm just an idiot

    yeah realign that back up with as screwdriver or punch or something before you try to put it in again.
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    Botched brake booster install: solved, I'm just an idiot

    looks like this or close too it. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51DUBPF1fVL._AC_SL1100_.jpg
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    Botched brake booster install: solved, I'm just an idiot

    I've literally seen people cut, notch and reweld boosters for engine swaps. so dents and massaging..... not an issue. you were close but not quite. Ok so you need to fix the threads. get someone to drive to you lowes/homedepot or any of the parts stores and get a die to clean up the threads...
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    Botched brake booster install: solved, I'm just an idiot

    I doubt you damaged it that much. the important stuff is inside and the only external thing that i would be concerned about is that little vacuum valve. if you didn't break it... then its just sheet metal and character marks.
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    Botched brake booster install: solved, I'm just an idiot

    my pleasure. but no. you would learn nothing by paying someone. and like i said before you figured out the hard part. You made the right decision to do it and you got this. But sometimes when parts get shipped, or before they even get boxed, they get knocked around a little. important lesson...
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    Botched brake booster install: solved, I'm just an idiot

    take the nuts that are likely on your floor carpet and thread them on the studs. then take channel locks or vicegrips and bend the each stud individually back to where it needs to be. if they are pushed in a little. thats ok. when you tighten them up on the firewall they will pull back out to...
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    Botched brake booster install: solved, I'm just an idiot

    OK, well unfortunately you can't trim the bolts they are not "longer than necessary" but you already figured out the turn and twist process to get it where you got it. You know the trick and getting it back in will be much easier than before. So now you need to pull it back out, and compare it...
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    Botched brake booster install: solved, I'm just an idiot

    Well if it is off it isnt by much. I bet the studs are a little off and you need to straighten them.
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    Botched brake booster install: solved, I'm just an idiot

    Stick a flashlight and look between to see if the bolts are hitting where they need. Honestly you got the thing in the area and that is the hardest part. This should be the easy part. So i think the studs are bent or you don't have it clocked right so more than one stud can go in
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    Botched brake booster install: solved, I'm just an idiot

    If you look closely on the picture of mine you will see there is a purple mark to show the correct clocking. Do you have a mark on yours? Also you can't make that work and have a working brake pedal at all without that booster in correctly
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    Botched brake booster install: solved, I'm just an idiot

    Either the studs were bent a little and won't go in, or something is stuck behind the booster. Or you need to be more encouraging.
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    Botched brake booster install: solved, I'm just an idiot

    No it wouldnt(be safe). Can you post a pick that is further away so we can see the booster to firewall relationship? The bolts going in the firewall matched the booster you took out?
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