Green brake and fuel pipes??

[Beaniemoo]

Bit of a long shot but does anyone know what the OE green brake and fuel lines are made from and more importantly anyone who makes them up?

Cheers

 

[Fred@BTM]

green fuel lines?

 

[bmh.01]

Guessing the brake lines are steel with a rubber/plastic coating and it'd most likely be a renault job to get new ones.

 

[GAZ2]

If you mean the brake lines.. i believe they're copper.

 

[Fred@BTM]

OE are steel painted i believe

 

[Beaniemoo]

Yeah the dark green coated brake pipes (solid ones not flexi) I'm changing the brake and fuel lines on the clio but don't really want to use copper ones I'd like to get some made up the same as the OE ones.

So steel we reckon with a rubberised coating we reckon?

 

[Fred@BTM]

what's wrong with copper!!!!

 

[Beaniemoo]

Don't know for sure but the manufacurers aren't using it anymore which made me think it's an outdated way of doing things?

 

[DanD182]

why are you changing those?

Surely you'd put your brake lines (not the green solid one) as braided lines?

 

[Tom84]

eh? just use copper it will last longer than steel plus is far more easier to bend an make up the ends

 

[Henry]

your copper lines will go green eventually anyway! 'lol'

ed. i think they're colour coded for either side of the car, as some of the pipes are black

 

[Fred@BTM]

its not allowed in some countries, bt 100% legal and safe here, you can get some fancier solid brake pipe if you want (its silvery/chrome in appearence) its harder than copper though

 

[Beaniemoo]

its not allowed in some countries, bt 100% legal and safe here, you can get some fancier solid brake pipe if you want (its silvery/chrome in appearence) its harder than copper though

Brilliant, cheers fella. As i'm putting the clio on bodies now I thought i'd take this opotunity to do away with the plastic fuel pipes under the car that had to be joined when we did the engine conversion. Looking at the cars at work they all had these hard "green" lines and if I could get myself some custom lines the same that'd be best. If that'd proved easy enough I was gonna replace the copper brake pipes we fitted when restoring the car the first time too so it all looked nice and factory.

I'll try to find someone that makes the fancier pipes but failing that I'm now happy to use copper.

Cheers for the help

 

[Fred@BTM]

primer + paint = done

 

[ben_p]

got to watch out for cheap s**t though.

Use these www.brake-pipe.co.uk they make any length in premium copper and fit any unions on the end. they do proper flares too, not of these cheap tooling s**t!

 

[Tigger]

The steel pipes can stand higher pressure than the copper ones appearently but rust quicker than copper, hence covering them with plastic/rubber/teflon for protection.

 

[Chris Enright]

CuNiFer brake pipes is the way to go.

 

[Martin_172]

CuNiFer brake pipes is the way to go.

Id hope he's sorted it by now, 12 years later....