On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 18:40:34 -0500, Gerald Miller
wrote:

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:37:54 -0600, "R. O'Brian"
wrote:

Copper work-hardens by the
repeated deformation produced by the brake pressure pulses and would crack
in a short time.

Randy

This, I discovered with the rocker arm oiler kit installed on my '57
Ford 272.
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada


This I discovered when I bought my first car..a Rambler station wagon.
The previous owner had replaced the break lines with copper tubing.

I discovered the problem with copper tubing one afternoon at a red
light in Gaylord, Michigan, when I stomped on the brake pedal..and
there was a pop- Floosh noise from the rear of the car..and the old
bitch kept right on steaming into the intersection where I T-boned a
66 Mustang painted white with black spots. The state trooper followed
the twin lines of break fluid down the block about 150 feet. He said I
must have been pumping like a son of a bitch to have pumped the system
dry.

I had that car about a week. I got an $18 ticked for failure to stop
at a red light..the previous owner got to pay for the repairs to the
mustang...or have every state trooper in the area bird dog his ass the
moment he put key into the ignition.

First and only accident I have had in about 3,000,000 miles of driving
(lighting a candle, saying a prayer, spinning a prayer wheel, while
rubbing a rabbits foot and munching on a 4 leaf clover)


Gunner

The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose
and for someone else to pay when things go wrong.

In the past few decades, a peculiar and distinctive psychology
has emerged in England. Gone are the civility, sturdy independence,
and admirable stoicism that carried the English through the war years
.. It has been replaced by a constant whine of excuses, complaints,
and special pleading. The collapse of the British character has been
as swift and complete as the collapse of British power.

Theodore Dalrymple,