On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 16:27:41 -0400, Ed Huntress wrote:

On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 15:21:16 -0500, Tim Wescott
wrote:

On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 15:17:01 -0500, Lloyd E. Sponenburgh wrote:

On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 12:40:30 -0400, Jim Wilkins wrote:

A 3/16" (0.191") brake line on my Honda rusted through from the
outside
and the dealer wants $1200 to take the front and rear apart enough
to thread a one-piece new one in.

What should I watch for when I splice in a repair section with
double-lap flare fittings? Advice on the Net is contradictory and
not too helpful.


HAH! This IS the "net". Do you (necessarily) expect any better
advice here than you'd get elsewhere on the net?

(This is not to criticize anyone's advice... only to point out that
this is just as unreliable a resource as anything else you might pick
up on "the net")

Unless you've been watching the group, and you have a notion of who's
full of BS and who isn't. Strangely, must of the folks who answer
questions here give pretty good advise, IMHO.

When I ask for advice on the net I generally pay attention to all of it,
but only follow the bits that make sense after I think about them a bit.

Here's the best, which I think you posted: Don't screw with brake lines.
Do not splice brake lines. Do not jury-rig brake lines.

If you had an accident and they found out you'd done something like
that, I doubt if the insurance company would pay.

Actually, I didn't say "don't screw with it". I said don't splice to a
known-bad brake line. If the OP can use approved aftermarket components
(i.e., brake lines and blocks from the auto parts store) to do the job,
more power to him.

I suppose I might think differently if he does it up out of 64 3" sections
of line, with 63 splice blocks -- but replacing one 16' long line with two
8' lines makes perfect sense to me.

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Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com