Re: Steering, brakes & intro

["Triocco" <dave@gorseclose.freeserve.co.uk>]

On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Josiah wrote:
Josiah,
Time to buy pipe cutter, pipe, flaring tool and joints which is something I
have put off for too long. Cheers for the advice but I need to ask more to
understand.Are you suggesting if steel pipe to rubber joint is tight, cut
original pipe and put some sort of joint in to new pipe to cylinder?
Did you have to take shaft out of column or there access to the ring out
bearings with shaft in place?  Is it possible/ sensible to take the shaft
out  to replace or hose clamp the bearing without removing the column from
the car first? Are these ring out bearings at the top of the column?

Dave
Trident 900
Scirocco GTX

-----Original Message-----
From: josiah@bork.hampshire.edu <josiah@bork.hampshire.edu>
To: Triocco <dave@gorseclose.freeserve.co.uk>
Cc: scirocco <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Date: 28 March 1999 20:58
Subject: Re: Steering, brakes & intro


Ah yes brake lines.... oh joy. I hate brake lines : ) Sometimes I find
it's easier to cut a brake line in the middle (properly, with a pipe
cutter) and fabricate a new piece to attach to it yourself, rather than
dealing with all of the inevitably rusted nuts. If you have a flaring
tool and know how to use it, etc, this is the way to go, IMHO. But you
could also see if you can get the attachment apart at the rear axle where
that steel line attaches to the rubber hose. In any case, good luck.
About the steering column... I had a problem like that once,
turned out that the ring out bearings had fallen down out of place and was
hanging around down near the bottom of the steering column. I was able to
shove them back up into place and everthing was fine... for about 5
seconds. I finally put a hose clamp on the steering column right below the
bearings to keep them in place. It was fine for about 30,000 miles until I
junked the car.
Good luck!
-Josiah



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