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Re: [T3] Speaking of brake lines


On 25 Jun 2005 at 2:23, Dave Hall wrote:

> > Braking is absolutely even though (testing included "look ma! no hands!"
> > while braking). The brake light switches appear to have the exact same size
> > and thread as the brake line ends, so physically it must be possible to
> > interchange them.
> > What would be the danger of having it this way?

> A note I've read in the factory workshop manual talks about different diameter
> inner holes in the M/C ports.  Seems like that could restricts the fluid flow
> rate and maybe cause one side to snatch a bit before the other.  If so, it would
> only become noticeable under emergency braking - not sure I'd want to test my
> answer in that situation.

The holes ARE different, but the difference in the little hole means nothing 
compared to the long length of small diameter tubing that both fluids have to 
pass thru. If there were really a sound engineering reason to worry about this, 
then they should have put the same length of hard line on each side of the MC. 
They didn't, and the L/R balance clearly doesn't suffer.

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Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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