At 07:44 PM 5/28/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Gang:
>
>The question du jour is "Brake Lines - Where should they run, and why?".
>
>Does anyone know why the rear brakes would be plumbed so that the line runs
>first to one wheel and then to the other, with that second wheel having the
>only bleeder valve? My car had this configuration when I got it, and I know
>someone who says that this was indeed the stock configuration, but I have
>never seen nor heard of this before.
>
>Is it really stock?
>
>Is there some advantage to it?
>
>Are there inherant problems with it.
>
>Is it safe (or advisable) to change the plumbing so that the system has a "Y"
>to the rear brakes, or does that violate some mystical Law of Sunbeam that
>will cause Lucas, the Prince of Darkness, and his minions Jaeger and Smiths,
>to rise up from the depths of purdition and smite me for even contemplating a
>variation of their divine creation?
>
>Someone stop me, please!
>
>Rick Hoefle (1964 Tiger B9470508)
It is stock. It probably saved money by not using a tee (Y), but
what is wrong with it? Mine always bleed OK and it means one less filtting
to round off or strip when bleeding.
Doug Pruitt (301) 975-6419
Narf!
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