It always gets pretty hairy when you have a hole rust through your brake
line. Especially when you are in a loaded International grain truck. Have
to develop creative driving techniques. As always, lots of fun.
Michael Hutchinson
> > Well no, but then I've had a lot of old cars and never seen a brake
line
> > rust out with ANY kind of fluid.
>
> I don't know about rusting in or out but I have found myself brakeless
> three times because of a rust through pin hole. All that mattered to me
> at the time was the fact that I was going down hill without brakes. Why
> did it ALWAYS have to happen on a hill??
>
> TeriAnn
> First time 1955 Ford in 1968
> Second and third times 1960 Land Rover in early 1980's
>
> This taught me that if one steel line rusts through replace them all and
> not just the one that rusted through.
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