Cut off the rubber sleeves from your brake lines! These hide moisture and
rust and can cause catastrophic brake failure while in motion.
After putting new brake lines on my car I had rubbing from the stock
rims. I had to do some creating bending of the lines to get them to clear
the rims. My 14x6 aluminum wheels clear the lines fine. The only problem
I had was with the stick-on inner wheel weights, which I swapped for lip
wheel weights when I had my tires mounted.
At 12:07 PM 5/2/2002 -0400, WisslerJon@aol.com wrote:
>Brian,
>
>I think you're right about the 3.5". I measured last night and got about
>4 1/4" from mounting plate to "outer" fender lip in the rear. The lip
>itself came in at about 1/2", leaving 3 3/4". I assume I want SOME level
>of extra for comfort. There didn't seem to be any concern in the rear as
>far as the "inner" tolerances. The front wheel is another story. Since
>the well is arched, my current stock wheel and tire setup is well below
>the lip, though the lip does curve inward as it approaches the
>bumper. Still seems to be plenty of room though. When I threw a set of
>14x7 Panasports with 205/60/14's on it last year, which were close on the
>back but fit OK by the way, the problem I had was with clearance to the
>brake line that has the rubber sleeve on it on the passanger side up
>front. I ended up bending it ever so slightly to get a sliver of
>clearance, but it still made me a tad nervous. No problems with rubbing
>on the outside. In looking again last night, it would appear!
> that going to a 15" wheel would alleviate this problem somewhat, for it
> was the tire where it was closest to the wheel that was contacting the
> brake line. I'm looking at a set of 15 x 6.5 wheels on ebay that I'm
> hoping will fit. Thanks to all for your help and advice.
>
>69 2000
>69 510 Wagon
>
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