[s-cars] fuel and brake lines

[chris chambers]

Kent,

I had a similiar experience many years ago with an 85 Audi 5000, it had
a fuel line rust through underneath one of the rubber "brackets" that 
hold it in place under the car.

Local tech used 2 long lengths of steel line coupled together, and cut 
off the flared ends replacing the non-metric fittings with the metric
fittings off of the rusted lines, and then flared the lines.

Now this was some time ago and you may be able to purchase line with
metric fittings on the end, but at that time he couldn't get any.

Total job was done in an hour.

HTH
Chris



--- Kent McLean <kentmclean at comcast.net> wrote:

> I got the bad new regarding my new-to-me 200 20V Avant. Among other
> maladies
> preventing it from passing a state safety inspection are the metal
> brake and
> fuel lines that run under the car. (Gotta love salted roads.)
> 
> I've been told the fuel line is NLA. My first thought was to run new
> fuel lines
> in a couple of pieces, for ease of installation. The tech says metal
> fuel lines
> spliced with rubber hose won't pass inspection, and will probably
> leak in a few
> months. My second thought was to use compression fittings to join the
> lines.
> Doable? Good idea? Bad idea?
> 
> The brake lines I think need to be one piece (true?). I haven't
> priced OEM
> pieces. Has anyone made their own, using straight pipe from the
> FLAPS, bent into
> shape and flared at the ends?  Single flare or double? Can
> compression fittings
> hold up to the much higher pressure of the brake line?
> 
> (Anyone want to buy a 200 TQA, cheap? :)
> 
> -- 
> Kent McLean
> '91 200 TQA, no name yet
> '94 100S Avant, "Moody"
> '89 200 TQ, "Bad Puppy" up in smoke
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