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Brake lines and hoses - warning!

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Subject: Brake lines and hoses - warning!
From: "Paul" <9laser3@bright.net>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:54:34 -0400
WARNING:
  I need some advise, but first a warning.  If you have not replaced your
brake hoses (all three of them), call Les/Dennis at CDM and order them!  I
have read the warnings about the plastic coating over the steel lines and I
checked all mine a few years back.  But some how the rubber hoses avoided my
inspection.  Well I finally removed the drivers front side ( sprung a leak
in the steel line just above the caliper at the PVGP) and the hose almost
fell apart in my hands while I unscrewed it.  The outer rubber is dry and
crumbling and cracked from one end to the other!  Needless to say, all three
hoses will get replaced before my 1600 goes back on the road.

ADVISE:
  is there any way to remove the steel line from the pressure switch to the
drivers side caliper short of pulling the heated hose, choke cables, master
cylinder, and .... oh what the heck, .. the motor?!  That thing curls up and
down around everything even remotely close.

Brakeless in Ohio,

Paul
OROC

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