Re: [T3] a couple of Brake questions

[Toby Erkson <air_cooled_nut@pobox.com>]

<x-flowed>I wouldn't recommend the fender well.  That area gets lots of abuse and 
moisture.  The lines hug the rear part of the fender and exit below to 
the master cylinder thru a seam between the gas tank and fender (hole is 
filled with a thick, gooey puddy).

 Toby Erkson  --  http://www.icbm.org/
 '72 VW Squareback Darksider, 5-speed, 2.0L, rag top
 Sold to Purdue Univ.: '72 VW Squareback Lightsider, automatic, FI, sunroof
 '95 VW Jetta ~ SCCA Solo 2 EP #3; '73 Porsche 914; '81 Honda Gold Wing
 Portland, Oregon



Steven Ayres wrote:

> John=> If I was to switch to the dual circuit master cylinder,
> => what would be involved ...?
>
> That depends on how far you want to go with it. Adding to what JimA 
> said, I acquired a dual-circuit reservoir to go with the dual-circuit 
> master -- this allows you to see which of the circuits is leaking 
> before it quits, which I think is important -- and I made new hard 
> lines for the front. (The single-circuit lines might be made to work, 
> but we decided they were too short to make a clean fit; besides, they 
> were old and cruddy.) The reservoir and master have 8mm fittings, as 
> Jim mentioned, so I knew I'd need 8mm feed lines; two of those take a 
> lot more space than a single 6mm line, and the reservoir is 
> substantially larger as well, so I relocated the reservoir to a 
> more-like-late-stock location at the rear of the boot (near the 
> steering column) and created a new path for the feed lines through the 
> fender well. (I got stock used lines from Jim, by the way.) Not a 
> super-complex job, but it required some thought and work.
>
> Steven Ayres, Prescott AZ
> '66 KG1600
>
>
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