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Good luck morph!

How are morphs brake pipes doing? Ive been under mine a bit recently and noticed that i seem to have some slightly rusty ones :( I am now trying to decide if i can face brake bleeding a 101 or not! or if i should just paint some more underseal on the chassis...

Porous brake pipes can and usually do lead to brown trousers!

|| Good luck morph! || || How are morphs brake pipes doing? Ive been under mine a bit recently || and noticed that i seem to have some slightly rusty ones :( || I am now trying to decide if i can face brake bleeding a 101 or not! || or if i should just paint some more underseal on the chassis...

I noticed some "slightly rusty" brake pipes on the S2a when I was underneath. Didn't think anything of it. The MoT tester failed it on rusty pipes (amongst other things) and recommended I replace the lot. When I started to dismantle, much of the pipework came off in my hands. Especially next to the unions, it was rusted right through, although to my untrained eye it looked like just a bit of surface rust. I was probably one emergency stop away from a serious brown trouser moment.

A friend's SII was similar, he nudged a brake line while fixing something else and it just snapped despite very little force being put on it. He'd rebuilt it from the chassis up many years ago and that particular piece of pipe he'd just re-used rather than replaced for some reason that he can't now recall.

I'd been told in the past to just ignore rust on brake lines as the copper/brass/whatever it's made from self-seals against rust, i.e. the first bit of rust protects it against getting any worse, like aluminium, however that seems to be BS.

|| I'd been told in the past to just ignore rust on brake lines however that seems to be BS.

I think you're right there.

On or around Sun, 25 Jun 2006 13:03:58 +0100, Ian Rawlings enlightened us thusly:

probably true on copper or cunifer lines, but the OE ones are almost invariably steel and rust just fine.

I've heard that sorting out and bleeding the brakes on a 101 is not fun :(

Yep as I found out about 2 weeks ago .and I didn't even see the rust as some twonk had put greasy antirust crap on the pipe- surprising how far it sprays when the pedal is pushed Derek Wimbledon! ah that explains the rain

Tom Woods uttered summat worrerz funny about:

The Good

Well ...Morphs well and truely touched, another 12 months of Landrovering for him.

The Bad

After dropping the caravan off I mentioned (From Eastnor) I mentioned he sounded different. Well today he sounded like a Banshee has moved in to the transmission. I suspect it's the front Diff ... it a Whirr at low speed.

I'll have another butchers in a couple of days, Busy tomorrow.

Lee D