Thread: Rotten Brake Hoses

You'll need to really consider rebuilding the callipers as well. What happens is the inner of the rubber hose breaks down and ends up behind the pistons. From there it fornms a sludge and the pistons are slow to return because of the higher viscosity of the old fluid. Even if you change the fluid, any hard bits, as I found out one day, can block the very small inlet hole behind the piston jamming on one side of the brakes (usually front).

The upside of which is if it happens on the freeway and you just touch the brakes because of traffic you may find yourself turning hard left (in my case) or right and running through the chainlink fence and into suburbia.

Bugger and bugger again. I've got a box of stuff from island4x4 in New Delli on it's way here, and I discovered just a few minutes ago i've a split RH front hose.

Talking about prices; a set of koni raids for my classic were $1100 through Pedders Bendigo, or $740 mailed to my door from Atlantic British; or a Tee piece restrictor for a Hotwire disco, $56 in Geelong, or $8 ish from island4x4.

Will be a pawn no longer thank you!

Incidentally, Myer in Bendigo were the first retail store in the world to put on a mark-up of 1000%.