My brake lines failed at this location about 25 years
ago (pre-roadster list) as I was pulling my car into
the garage (lucliky) at about 2 mph. Messed up my
water heater, but I lived and the car was undamaged.
A good time to lose the brakes! the replacement lines
are do not have the plastic sleeves!
--- steve car <steve_car@hotmail.com> wrote:
> That sounds like a nightmare Ruth. I unexpectably
> lost my brakes many years
> ago, and it was scarey to say the least.
>
> What about the fuel lines though? They are made from
> the same plastic
> material, but I have never heard anybody say that
> should be cut off.
>
> Does anybody know a good way to remove the plastic?
> Last time I did it with
> an exacto knife on the front brake portion, I ended
> up putting cut marks on
> the tubing.
>
> Steve
>
> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:36:44 +1000
> From: "Ruth" <ruthprimmer@hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Brake and fuel line rubber removal
>
> It's the plastic on the brake lines that you need to
> remove. And yes, you
> need to take it off the entire length of the car.
> The metal corrodes
> underneath until only the plastic is holding the
> fluid in, until one day
> when you hit the brakes and the plastic explodes...
>
> Alan had that happen in Cedric, on a downhill slope.
> Not much fun, and even
> worse because of the abuse from the drivers around
> him when he "ran a stop
> sign". He managed to pull up, but it could have been
> a disaster.
>
> In the Rallye catalog from 1983, they mention a
> court case in which a driver
> & passenger died, and Nissan were found liable for
> their deaths because of
> the coating on the brake lines. I haven't researched
> this further, but
> having personal experience in our family of it
> happening once leads me to
> believe we aren't an isolated case.
>
> Do it now. And if the metal underneath looks at all
> dodgy, replace the
> lines. Probably a few hundred $$ not in the budget,
> but your family will
> thank you for it when you come back from your next
> drive alive.
>
> Ruth
> *stepping off her soapbox now*
>
> - ----- Original Message -----
> From: "steve car" <steve_car@hotmail.com>
> To: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 2:34 PM
> Subject: Brake and fuel line rubber removal
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