Re: What's the straight dope on SS brake lines?

[Randy Martinez <howlinmonkey16v@yahoo.com>]

Can anyone tell me who sells  SS brake line kits, and how much they
usually run for?
    Thanks, Randy
--- Ben Channard <zeroid@hotmail.com> wrote:
>      I had bought the party line that metal braided brake lines give a 
> firmer pedal but if the construction of the SS brake lines is like our
> fuel 
> lines, it seems that there is plenty of space for expansion of the
> encased 
> rubber line.  Does the braiding limit the expansion of the brake line? 
> Can 
> you see the rubber line completely fill up the braided portion if you
> step 
> on the pedal?  If not, a plain rubber line isn't going to expand any
> more 
> than a SS line.
> 
>      Another reason for my doubting Thomas mode is that I'm assuming
> that 
> when someone installs SS brake lines, they will be replacing possibly 
> decades old rubber lines which have gotten soft and spongy with age and 
> ozone as well as putting in fresh fluid and doing a careful bleeding. 
> On 
> top of this, new pads and rotors may factor in.  So how much of the
> reported 
> increase in pedal feel is actually due to the braiding and not due to a 
> general freshening of the brake system or even worse, a placebo effect? 
> If 
> anyone can set me straight on this, please fire away.  benton-----
> 
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Randy
87 2.0l 16v Rice Eater
89 8v Gti (sold for Rocco)
Teaneck, NJ

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