In a message dated 10/21/99 7:50:31 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
greyhawk2@earthlink.net writes:
> In the Dec. Issue of Classic Trucks, there is an article on brake
> lines. On page 69 there is a picture with a caption saying, "it is
> very important to wrap the connectors with Teflon tape" . Now, I
> remember reading somewhere, not to ever use Teflon tape on brake
> line fittings. So which is it?
> Ben Bennett
> 55 2nd in S. CA.
Ben,
If the connections are compression type fittings, never use Teflon tape, if
for some reason you're using a union type connector, the use the Teflon tape.
FWIW, I've never seen anything but flared compression type connectors on
brake lines.
Mike
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