[s-cars] Brass brake lines made an amature out of me!

[Toborg Michael (AC-SM/ESC3) *]

The fittings on the ABS hydraulic unit end are steel (white in color)
and were a piece of cake to remove, but the line itself and the fitting
at the wheel end were softer metal and brown/gold in color. Wheel end
fittings on my 95 S6 are brass, line is not steel either. It will now be
replaced with a steel line.

Car must have been built on a Friday, or all the lines were replaced at
some point. Lucky me. I don't understand it either.

Mike 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Strangways [mailto:Strangconst at rogers.com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 10:57 AM
To: Toborg Michael (AC-SM/ESC3) *; s-car-list at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Brass brake lines made an amature out of me!

Ummmmmmmmm.

I don't think they use brass for brake lines or fittings...
At least most all makes and models I have seen.
My 93 S4 (Can.) sure doesn't have any brass...


Mark S
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Toborg Michael (AC-SM/ESC3) *" <Michael.Toborg at us.bosch.com>
To: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 9:21 AM
Subject: [s-cars] Brass brake lines made an amature out of me!


What's the deal with the brass brake lines and brass fittings at the
flex hose? I totally mangled the front left brake line on my S6. I guess
10 winters in Michigan will rust things pretty good, but this was
unexpected. A good flare wrench, oil, propane, cold chisel, and finally
vice grips did that little brass fitting in.
I'm borrowing a bubble flare kit and brake line tubing bender to run a
new line tonight. Luckily the front left is one of the shortest brake
lines on the car.
 
Are the brass brake lines on this car just because they are easy to bend
at the factory? Anybody care to speculate?
-Mike 
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