Not much has happened over the past couple of weeks as I always seem to be in wait mode. I hope my panels will be back next week and to be ready for that I have sent off the door handles to be re chromed and a heap of bolts, clips etc to be zinc plated including the clips that hold the side trims in place.
Other than that I have now put the rear brake lines in place. From the factory they have a rubber tube over the top of the copper lines, this becomes brittle with age and breaks away from the line. To renew the rubber protection I bought some rubber tubing, cut it to length and sliced it along its length and fitted it to the copper line. I then glued the slice together using super glue which gives a good finish which sets quickly. I bought a couple of 1.2m lengths of 12.5mm heat shrink from the local electrical supplies shop ($4.00 each) and pulled that over the new rubber on the lines and shrunk in into place. This gave the brake lines a nice smooth finish which should stay in place for many years.
If you use a lot of heat shrink and usually buy it from your local parts shop you are really paying a premium for it.$12.00 will get you about half a metre in various sizes.
Go to your electrical wholesaler and you can buy it in 1.2m lenghts for around $4.00 and that's for the larger diameter sections 12.5mm plus, the smaller sections 4mm-10mm are even cheaper.
Brittle and broken protective rubber on brake line.
New section of rubber hose placed over line and slice
glued together.
12.5mm heat shrink is a good size to fit over all fittings
and rubber hose.
Heat shrink left a bit longer than hose.
Section completed.
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