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Re: Brake Line Questions

To: danray@bluegrass.net
Subject: Re: Brake Line Questions
From: gofastmg@juno.com (Rick Morrison)
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 22:14:53 EST
Dan,
 Don't take a chance bending steel tubing  (or any other for that matter)
by hand. It is just too easy to crimp the tube. Plus the fact you can
never really get the bend right.
 Tubing benders are cheap, even for good ones, and they will pay for
themselves in the tubing you don't mess up.

Rick Morrison
72 MGBGT
74 Midget

On Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:03:40 -0600 "Dan Ray" <danray@bluegrass.net>
writes:
>Well, I guess our British "bubble flare" brake lines are becoming more 
>rare.
>But I found one.
>For future reference - where do folks find brake line and fittings? I 
>know
>someone in town with a bubble flare tool.
>Now, so I don't screw this one up...What's the best method for fitting 
>a new
>brake line?
>Should I just bend by hand or is there a better way? Maybe this is 
>common
>sense, but I know someone has done this before and I'm interested in 
>any
>hints.
>This one is going in the back, from the flex hose, across the diff to 
>the
>right rear wheel. (I crimped the original getting the differential pan 
>off -
>better safe than sorry!)
>TIA
>
>Dan
>73 B
>
>
>


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