Paul,
Why would stainless steel be MORE prone to wear and abrasion than OEM
rubber? I'd think it'd be the opposite!
TIA
Bill Schenker
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Czarnecki <oblique@alum.mit.edu>
To: Team.Net <autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 6:54 AM
Subject: Re: Stock Category brake lines
> >other than the brakes are less likely to fail.
>
> from what I've been told, Stainles Steel (I'm am so tempted to put SS
> brake lines) are MORE likely to fail than OEM parts.
>
> Why? This seems wrong at first.
>
> The reason is that stainless steel lines are very subject to
> abrasion. Road racing teams that use generally consider them to be a
> maintenance item, you replace them once a season or whatever. The
> street driver, who installed them years ago, has since driven through
> all sorts of road crap etc and never thinks to check/replace them.
> Even the road racers makes this mistake. There was a big fireball of
> a race car at Lime Rock a few years back. It had stainless steel
> fuel lines (for safety!) but it abrades along the undercarraige.
>
> So, don't assume that stainless is safer. Properly maintained it is,
> but it is often not properly maintained.
>
>
> pZ
> --
> Paul Czarnecki
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