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Re: Re Brake lines

To: <BERKEN@aol.com>, <Fred_Katz@ci.sf.ca.us>
Subject: Re: Re Brake lines
From: "Fred Katz" <fredkatz@2xtreme.net>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 00:48:49 -0800
Hi Joseph, do roadster-fans ever just buy something new before trying to
tinker with what they got?! Anyway, I got a couple of free new rebuild kits
so I thought it was worth a shot. 

Fred - So.SF

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> From: BERKEN@aol.com
> To: Fred_Katz@ci.sf.ca.us
> Cc: datsun-roadsters@Autox.Team.Net
> Subject: Re: Re Brake lines
> Date: Thursday, January 07, 1999 9:00 PM
> 
> Fred, 
> I'm sure you're going to get different ideas on this, but my experience
was
> that trying to rebuild the m.c. was an exercise in futility.  The kits
are
> cheap, but it was worse after I rebuilt it than before.   Very dangerous
> before and totally deadly after.  A new one is about $160 and  will last
about
> 100,000 miles.  The problem seems to be that the bore in the alumimum
cylinder
> gets worn bigger and irregular and so the seals just don't fix it.  I
also
> tried to get the thing apart and it seems that the dissimilar metals
"weld"
> themselves together.  Anyway, take your choice, try to rebuild, it will
mostly
> just cost you time; or buy a new one. 
> 
> My .02/worth
> 
> 
> Joseph Berkenbile
> 70 1600
> Albuquerque

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