It behooves (ha..how do ya like that word ?) me to let everyone know what I found today.
I bought my latest "running and driving"...54 wagon from a guy here in SoCal who said he'd been driving the car since he gained ownership...about 6 months previous.
I finally got to finishing up tearing apart the brake system in preperation for a whole new system (except the pedal). I removed the rear lines this evening and was removing the lines from the axle "T" and tossing the hard lines in the trash.. I noticed that the "T" was oddly dirty full of crud, as in almost plugged..!
I cleaned up one end of the rubber line and blew thru it....or at least tried to. I'd say it was at least 80% blocked..! I gave the original rear end away so I really don't know if the rear brakes were working or not by looking at the shoe wear....but...
I pulled one of the hard lines out of the trash and again, cleaned up one end, tried blowing thru it....maybe 50% blocked as compared to a new line about twice as long...(the old shorter line should have been much easier to blow thru) !
All this is to say, that for those of you driving on stock 50+ year old brake lines...this winter might be a good time to install new lines...front to rear.
Mike
I bought my latest "running and driving"...54 wagon from a guy here in SoCal who said he'd been driving the car since he gained ownership...about 6 months previous.
I finally got to finishing up tearing apart the brake system in preperation for a whole new system (except the pedal). I removed the rear lines this evening and was removing the lines from the axle "T" and tossing the hard lines in the trash.. I noticed that the "T" was oddly dirty full of crud, as in almost plugged..!
I cleaned up one end of the rubber line and blew thru it....or at least tried to. I'd say it was at least 80% blocked..! I gave the original rear end away so I really don't know if the rear brakes were working or not by looking at the shoe wear....but...
I pulled one of the hard lines out of the trash and again, cleaned up one end, tried blowing thru it....maybe 50% blocked as compared to a new line about twice as long...(the old shorter line should have been much easier to blow thru) !
All this is to say, that for those of you driving on stock 50+ year old brake lines...this winter might be a good time to install new lines...front to rear.
Mike
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