[Shotimes] HELP! rear brake pad replacement issues (piston)

[Ian Fisher]

The Earl's rear lines do have brackets. They have the
bracket at the factory location on the unibody which
is either stainless or coated and hasn't rusted on
mine. They also have a bracket for the strut mount;
IIRC, the line is mounted in a spherical bearing. It's
a much better design than OEM.

Ian

--- Dave Pillsbury <showerks@comcast.net> wrote:

> Well you do what they do with the SS lines and just
> not put brackets on! 
> I install all of mine with the bracket opened up.
> Then again I have one 
> of the shortest stopping distance stock braked SHO's
> around, By the way 
> Don just and FYI we were discovering this problem on
> the Linclon 
> Versiallies Rear ends in rod swaps and my Stang back
> in 88.
> Dave
> 
> Donald Mallinson wrote:
> 
> > The bracket isn't squeezing the line shut, it is
> the bracket rusting 
> > and that rust migrating through the rubber line to
> swell it shut.
> >
> > How do I know?  I was one of the first people to
> report this 
> > phenomenon and I cut open my old brake line to see
> what was happening.
> >
> > opening up the bracket might help a little since
> the rusty part won't 
> > be tight against the metal, but now the line can
> move and rub against it.
> >
> > I would NOT mess with that bracket, for a jot that
> needs done maybe 
> > once every 5 years?
> >
> > Don Mallinson
> >
> > Jason Hartberger wrote:
> >
> >> Is there any way to widen that bracket a little
> before you put the 
> >> line in? It seems like if I just open it up a
> little it'd still hold 
> >> the hose in but it wouldn't make the hose swell
> shut...
> >>
> >> Just a thought...
> >>
> >> Jason
> >>
> >>
> >> Dave Pillsbury wrote:
> >>
> >>> The only time you have to open the bleeder to
> get the piston back in 
> >>> is when the line collapses where it attaches at
> the strut in that 
> >>> POS bracket
> >>
> >>
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