Hi list -
I bought braided steel lines to replace the three rubber brake lines on
my '79 midget.
The front two were a snap.
The rear, however, isn't. When I disconnected the original rubber hose,
it twisted the brake line in two. So I went to buy another - but I
can't find an adapter to fit the braided steel line to the normal steel
lines that runs up the car to the master cylinder!!! I went to 6
different hardware and auto stores, NOBODY has the adapter I need!
It's a female-female 3/16" adapter, but here's the scoop - all the "line
joiners" that I could find had shallow fittings. The guy at NAPA went
so far as to say in "all his years, he's never seen an adapter that had
a deeper fitting." The PROBLEM is that the braided steel line doesn't
have any thread for the first 1/8" or so on the end of it, so it won't
catch the thread to this joiner and therefore I can't connect it to the
brake line!
Pictorally, here's what I have:
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|//| |___| <== this is the standard 3/16 line that
|//| |___| is coming from the front of the car
------> | | | | and can take the standard line joiner
| | | | | piece that any auto store has.
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This is the end connector of
the braided steel line - it is
the correct diameter but there's
no thread on the tip - it can't
fit into the shallow opening of
the standard 3/16" connector.
Can anybody help? Everyone around here tells me that there's no way I
can connect these lines and nobody has ever heard of such a crazy
thing. They are coming close to convincing me that I'm nuts.
eric
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__.o,\____ Go, Lil' Racer! * Eric C. Mumford
/__ \ / _ ) 1979 MG Midget * mumford@rpi.edu
(+)`---(+) http://travolta.stu.rpi.edu
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