[Roadsters] Brake line fittings--revisited (again ??)

Tim tputland at charter.net
Sun Oct 5 17:33:24 MDT 2008


Thanks to all who offered advise and part numbers. I want to follow up on a couple things now: 

We tried to find the correct fittings but everything we tried didn't seem to make a good feeling fit in the rear cylinder we had with us. Now that I have been told the exact part from NAPA that works (a place we didn't go to as they were closed already by that time) I will try to make my own. 

As far as making my own...

Some people said "buy from a vendor"; The whole reason for trying to make my own is two fold. 

One: I really cannot afford to buy the lines from a vendor right now. 

And Two: For me personally, I WANT to learn how to do this. A lot of you take for granted the knowledge you have to do this stuff yourselves. I never learned how to do stuff like this when I was younger. The opportunity was there to learn SOME of it, but for reasons better left unsaid, I didn't take advantage. 

I thank those of you who have offered advice, tips, hints, knowledge, etc. Beers and a home cooked meal on me, a semi-retired chef, to any and all who are ever in my neck of the woods.

OK, I am off my soap box now and will return to the shop to start to clean up some used brake parts (that I just pulled off of the usable part car) to determine usability. 

Sorry for the band width. 

PEACE :-)


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