RE: What's the straight dope on SS brake lines?

["Scott Williams" <scwillia@genuity.com>]

I guarantee you that you will feel an improvement in brake feel and control
when you switch to the braided steel lines. The difference is quite
obvious -even when swapping new parts.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> [mailto:owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Ben Channard
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 8:40 AM
> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: What's the straight dope on SS brake lines?
>
>
>      I had bought the party line that metal braided brake lines give a
> firmer pedal but if the construction of the SS brake lines is
> like our fuel
> lines, it seems that there is plenty of space for expansion of
> the encased
> rubber line.  Does the braiding limit the expansion of the brake
> line?  Can
> you see the rubber line completely fill up the braided portion if
> you step
> on the pedal?  If not, a plain rubber line isn't going to expand any more
> than a SS line.
>
>      Another reason for my doubting Thomas mode is that I'm assuming that
> when someone installs SS brake lines, they will be replacing possibly
> decades old rubber lines which have gotten soft and spongy with age and
> ozone as well as putting in fresh fluid and doing a careful bleeding.  On
> top of this, new pads and rotors may factor in.  So how much of
> the reported
> increase in pedal feel is actually due to the braiding and not due to a
> general freshening of the brake system or even worse, a placebo
> effect?  If
> anyone can set me straight on this, please fire away.  benton-----
>
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