Can you provide step by step instructions for replacing VW rubber brake lines?
This is for a 73 Model 181 Thing, but I expect it is the same as a Beetle's. I can't find my manual. Are there some metal clips I have to deal with? Does the new line just screw in? This would be the driver's side front.
br5492012-07-31T18:33:20Z
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Hoses are screwed to the cylinders, and held to the frame by metal "horse shoe" clips as seen in bottom middle of this picture; http://www.thethingshop.com/prodinfo.asp?number=181609002B The other end threads into the hard line from the master cylinder.
Hey Pappa, Brakes are NOT something you wanna mess up so go and get the manual if you're not sure how to perform a certain repair. There's also bleeding the brakes and why are you replacing just the one rubber line anyway? What does the rest of the brake system look like? Fronts, rears, hard lines, soft (rubber) lines? My guess is that if the one on the drivers side gave out, the others aren't too far behind. I'd be taking a long hard look at the ENTIRE brake system front to back left and right. Doing things piecemeal isn't really the way to do it, do it right and you only have to do it once.