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PostPosted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 9:41 am    Post subject: Swing axle rear brake line Reply with quote

While replacing the rear wheel cylinders on my 1960 bug, I also changed the metal lines between wheel cylinder and flex hose. The old steel line still had the tag on it showing it as a 3/16 European line. I was puzzled by it not being metric size. Brakes worked ok with no leakage at the connections. Any insights on this?
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 9:53 am    Post subject: Re: Swing axle rear brake line Reply with quote

I should think being from internet days , it is safe to say it is not original.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 1:05 pm    Post subject: Re: Swing axle rear brake line Reply with quote

4.76mm X 304.8mm... there, fixed it for ya😁
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 2:44 pm    Post subject: Re: Swing axle rear brake line Reply with quote

calvinater wrote:
I should think being from internet days , it is safe to say it is not original.


Lol, ya gotta point! Unless it was originally foe a special DeLorean!
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 6:23 pm    Post subject: Re: Swing axle rear brake line Reply with quote

calvinater wrote:
I should think being from internet days , it is safe to say it is not original.

Lol. The “Sarnia, Ontario” was another subtle clue. I did measure the thread pitch and it was 1.0 mm as original. The bubble flare seems to be like original. Only difference was that the 3/16 non-original fitting is longer so that when fully tightened there are 4 threads still exposed. No leaks though.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 9:15 pm    Post subject: Re: Swing axle rear brake line Reply with quote

Another clue is that in Europe they don't call it "European brake line," they just call it "brake line." Laughing
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 9:50 pm    Post subject: Re: Swing axle rear brake line Reply with quote

wayne1230cars wrote:
calvinater wrote:
I should think being from internet days , it is safe to say it is not original.

Lol. The “Sarnia, Ontario” was another subtle clue. I did measure the thread pitch and it was 1.0 mm as original. The bubble flare seems to be like original. Only difference was that the 3/16 non-original fitting is longer so that when fully tightened there are 4 threads still exposed. No leaks though.


I've gotten lines like that off the shelf from my local parts place.
No problem using them but as you said, the ends were a little weird (long).
When I've done that it was sort of an emergency situation, like once a wrench slipped and it broke the metal line.
Where am I going to get a line at 9PM at night when there's a show the next morning? Smile
I replaced them later with normal VW metric lines from a VW parts place.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 23, 2018 1:23 am    Post subject: Re: Swing axle rear brake line Reply with quote

i have used 3/16" with no issues.

any idea what metric size the originals are? 4.5mm? 5mm?
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