Keep your brake lines together when painting firewall
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Keep your brake lines together when painting firewall
Stole this idea from the 'yota plant I work at. They use plastic clamps to hold the lines together and then snap on a stud on the firewall. Anyway cut 2 or 3 groups of four 1/2 inch holes with a paddle bit. Cut them in half at 1 inch and the piece at 2. Then just wire tie the pieces together. Bad explanation but if your good at fab and thinking in 3 dimensions the pictures will speak volumes.
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They aren't something that typically needs to be replaced unless you live in the salt belt or near the beach. Or drive your car in the dirt all the time *ahem*. Making all new ones is royal PITA. Not something I would do just for a paint job. I just masked all mine off and did my best to spray around them. But this method is pretty good. If you're going to do a partial resto with a color change, it's a good idea.
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Or drive your car in the dirt all the time *ahem*.
Making all new ones is royal PITA. Not something I would do just for a paint job.
Heck, I redid the lines on my Golf in 45 minutes including bleeding the brakes...
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Never thought about that with the socket and the punch. Lol thats a pretty good idea!!!
This started out as a simple drop the damn motor in the car. Then my picky *** got cleaning here and there, then the areas got bigger and bigger. Then I thought while its out why not paint the engine bay? Now I'm at completely rewrapping and looming the entire wire harness. All new bolts, screws and clips.
I haven't painted the fuel lines or the brake to the rear line. I cleaned them off with a scrub pad and lacquer thinner. I think I'll go with it like that. I didn't clear the firewall. Now I wished I did oh well too late now. I've already into this WAAAYY deeper than I planned to go. I'm ready to start wiring up the 13b EFI, fuse block, coil packs, the power steering ECU and later the AAS suspension. My forte is not fabrication, welding or painting. I'm electronics guy. Lol
This started out as a simple drop the damn motor in the car. Then my picky *** got cleaning here and there, then the areas got bigger and bigger. Then I thought while its out why not paint the engine bay? Now I'm at completely rewrapping and looming the entire wire harness. All new bolts, screws and clips.
I haven't painted the fuel lines or the brake to the rear line. I cleaned them off with a scrub pad and lacquer thinner. I think I'll go with it like that. I didn't clear the firewall. Now I wished I did oh well too late now. I've already into this WAAAYY deeper than I planned to go. I'm ready to start wiring up the 13b EFI, fuse block, coil packs, the power steering ECU and later the AAS suspension. My forte is not fabrication, welding or painting. I'm electronics guy. Lol
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the roof is leaking but I cannot repair it because it is raining,
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the roof is leaking but I cannot repair it because it is raining,
when it isn't raining, the roof isn't leaking so I don't need to repair it
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Looking good too BTW! Love the progress.
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