[Spits] rear brake hoses

[Ted Schumacher]

You are both correct.Overseas, the cars were a year ahead of us. So, our 
'73 Spit was in the UK as a '72. We make steelbraid brake hose sets and 
this is always one of the issues that creates potential problems when 
making up hose kits.. Ted


v6spitfireguy at cox.net wrote:
> Actually, the rear axles (the "driveshafts" that I believe you are alluding
> to) were not lengthened until the 1973 model year -
> 71 and 72 got the swing spring and square tail, but the same length old
> axles as the MKIII's had, albeit with bigger U-Joint flanges.
>
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Bill Davies bill at rarebits4classics.co.uk
> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:13:33 +0100
> To: spitlist at cox.net, doug at dougbraun.com, sagreenwood at earthlink.net,
> spitfires at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Spits] rear brake hoses
>
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: spitfires-bounces+bill=rarebits4classics.co.uk at autox.team.net
>> [mailto:spitfires-bounces+bill=rarebits4classics.co.uk at autox.team.net] On
>> Behalf Of Joe Curry
>>
>> Perhaps when the axles were lengthened, Triumph just lengthened the hoses
>> to
>> accommodate.  Afterwards, they obviously added the solid piping.  Maybe
>> due
>> to the longer hoses having a possibility of rubbing against the axle
>> shafts.
>>
>> (Simply speculation)
>>     
>
> The hoses were lengthened and short rigid pipes introduced together with the
> long driveshafts in late 1972. The hoses have different end fittings to mate
> with the pipe flare, rather than sealed with a copper washer directly to the
> cylinder,
> Cheers,
> Bill.
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