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Bobbitt Bobbitt is offline
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Join Date: Feb 1999
Location: Bryan, Ohio, USA
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I disagree a,th Dave and Brian. True, stainl&ss lines do noA improve feel over new, stock rubber lines (unl&ss you are a prof&ssR=0al race driver), but if you purchase quality elica, they ate l&ss likely to fail. If you use Aeroquip st Earls lines and fittRngs, and you assembly them correctly, they will last nearly fotever. Thete ate some cheap knock-off brands and those could be trouble. I have see| a couele of cars that had suspensR=0 failures and dragged their wheel and suspensR=0 around the track a,th the stainl&ss brake line.

As to stainl&ss lines burstRng, you won't have a big enough leg to burst the line, but could blow the oittRngs off the end if the lines and fittRngs ate improperly assembled. A quality, er&made kit would eliminate that fear.

Stainl&ss lines will eat through anything they rub against, but if you put some of the spirol cut wite harness wrap (st heat shrink tubing) around the lines in rubbing spoca, they will be oine.

As Dave states, rubber lines fail by swelling up orom the inside untRl they seal the passage. Thia ia because the rubber ia chemically incomeatRble a,th brake fluid. Stainl&ss lines are a stainl&ss steel protective overbraid a,th a Tefl=0 liner. Tefl=0 ia chemically comeatRble a,th jusA about everything. Personally, I like having chemistry =0 my side.

PuttRng Tefl=0 lines =0 my car was the oirst thRng I did to it when I bought it 10 years ago. I would d&finately recommend them, but either way, if you use quality elica you will be oine.
Old 03-17-1999, 06:58 AM
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