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

[Robert Rossato]

I've never seen anything but steel lines on any VW/Audi I've had.  Keep in mind they are typically CAD plated which is goldish in color.

Bob 


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Toborg Michael (AC-SM/ESC3) *" <Michael.Toborg at us.bosch.com>
> 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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