[TR] Satinless Steel Brake Hoses

[Dave1massey at cs.com]

I installed Stainless hoses back in '96 and I had no such issues.  The 
length was just fine.  I think you may have revceived the wrong parts.  If you 
lay the two parts ont on a bench is there an appearent difference in length?

Dave

In a message dated 10/27/2012 5:22:40 PM Central Daylight Time, 
trdoctor at aol.com writes: 
> Good day to all,
> I recently have had problems with my brake system on my '72 TR6.  The car
> would stop just fine but, when waiting at a light, the pedal would go to 
> the
> floor.  Without any external leaks, in my experience, that lead to a
> replacement of the brake master.  I procured one from Apple Hydraulics
> (without the reservoir (sp)), cleaned the existing reservoir with brake
> cleaner safe for plastics, and installed it after bench bleeding without 
> any
> problems.  At the same time I was going to change the flexible brake lines 
> out
> with braided stainless hoses.  I changed these lines in ~'95 when I got 
> the
> car so I figured I'd change them and it would be a nice upgrade.  Long 
> story
> short, they don't fit.  I tried to change the LF and the threaded portion 
> of
> the hose that attaches to the ridged line at the caliper won't reach.  
> Anyone
> else had this problem?  I really don't like to try to bend old line 
> especially
> since the rubber ones fit just fine.  I ended up taking a real good look 
> at
> the rubber hoses and there were on cracks and they were still flexible so 
> I
> put it back together and am ready to bleed the system.
> TIA,