Break Line Cleaning & Protection

titchfield9 · Sep 2, 2018

All, seen lots of ways of cleaning and protecting the breaks lines.
Got an MOT shortly and want to clean the surface rust off, was just going to wire brush them and use tinners
but not sure what to protect them with afterwards.

Suggestions welcome.

Nodge68 · Sep 2, 2018

Just change them as you don't take chances with brakes.

1988smithy · Sep 2, 2018

Common practice to sand light rust off and coat in copper grease. If it's any more than superficial just replace them as said

titchfield9 · Sep 3, 2018

Thanks its superficial. where changed not long ago

Nodge68 · Sep 3, 2018

titchfield9 said:
Thanks its superficial. where changed not long ago

Didn't they fit copper or copper-nickle pipes as replacements?

guineafowl21 · Sep 4, 2018

Assuming they’re steel, rub them with emery cloth and inspect closely. If the rust is pitting in, replace. If not, coat with some of this:

I always keep a tin in the workshop for pre-mot touch ups.

LUKBENPHI · Sep 6, 2018

mot testers seem to note on advisories list these days of pipes coated in grease

titchfield9 · Sep 16, 2018

Got under and hand a look whilst I was stone chipping the chassis, would appear as I thought, the lines are replacements about 24 months old, they are both copper with uniform green oxidisation on them front to back so have left alone.
MOT is Friday so will see what happens.

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