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Check those brake lines! |
biosurfer1 |
May 19 2010, 09:15 PM
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Teener fo Life! Group: Members Posts: 3,020 Joined: 3-August 03 From: Roseville, CA Member No.: 977 Region Association: Northern California |
Especially the rubber ones!! I am in the process of changing out the front inserts and was going to do the rubber lines anyways, and boy am I glad I did.
Here is a picture of what it looked like in the car, not the best condition but certainly not too bad...or is it?? And as soon as I moved it just a bit, I noticed the real condition (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/barf.gif) The picture doesn't even show how bad it truly was, some of the cracks went all the way through...scary stuff. Just a reminder to check those lines, we are talking about brakes here and its not a system you don't want running at 100% |
charliew |
May 20 2010, 12:42 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,363 Joined: 31-July 07 From: Crawford, TX. Member No.: 7,958 |
This reminds me of when I brought my 914 home on the trailer after I bought it. The po had done a brake job so he said. He had. After I unloaded it my son and I took it through the neighborhood to see what all it needed. It had lots of valve noise and the steering wheel was really loose in it's bearing so the horn was honking on small bumps. Kinda funny to us. It had just been liscensed and inspected. About a 1/2 mile from the house I noticed the brakes were getting soft. My son said stop. We were already only going about 25 mph so it wasn't hard to stop. My son said he heard a funny noise and got out and was walking beside the car on the pass side and said there was a noise coming from the right rear. I let him drive and I listened and sure enough it was a clicking sound. I looked under the car in front of the rear wheel and the metal line was bubbing on the inside of the tire and was really hot. It already had a hole rubbed in it. It cooled pretty quick and I just finished breaking it in two and bent it sharply to kink it so it wouldn't keep leaking while we drove it home. I guess the po got the line too close to the tire and didn't drive it after he did the brake job. It did have brand new tires on it so maybe the new tires were wider? The po is a friend of a friend and we knew he wasn't a mechanic.
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