Re: Fuel and brake lines [desperate]

["David Guido" <guido_david@hotmail.com>]

>From: "Blake P. Pelzer" <bppelzer@midway.uchicago.edu>
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Fuel and brake lines [desperate]
>Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 10:34:59 -0600 (CST)
>
>Okay, a month ago I bought my first car, an 87 16v with 60000 miles. I was
>told that the passenger side e-brake cable was bad, so I took it in and
>was informed that he didn't want to touch the ebrake unless I wanted all
>the brake lines replaced as both they and the fuel lines were too fragile
>with rust to be played with. As this was some crazy old mercedes shop,
>this would be too expensive a procedure for me right now. So here are my
>questions.
>
>1. How soon does this need to be done? There are no leaks at present.
>
>2. Obviously the cost here is in the labor, so its clearly time consuming,
>but is it possible for a totally ignorant person to even think of
>attempting it?
>
>3. Does anyone know someone who could do this for me at a labor cost of
>less than 65 an hour within a 4 hour radius of Chicago?
>
>Thanks a lot
>Blake
>
>
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If you do decide to have both lines replaced then you might consider having 
them run *inside* the car for future protection. Rally cars are often set-up 
this way for safety reasons. I am considering doing this myself on my 1980 
MK1 since those poorly placed fuel lines run right next to the jack points! 
Mine got crushed from the previous owner trying to lift the car!

David Guido
1981 "S" (well designed fuel line placement)
1980 (Poorly designed fuel line placement)
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