With Wings As Eagles: Craig P. Steffen's Blog

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2008 February 13 01:17

Since I'm replacing the brake drums in my beetle anyway, the outer bearing races need to be removed from the drums. I took them out tonight; they were much easier to remove than I thought.



Since the wheels are basically all taken apart on the right side of the car, it's a good time to replace the brake hoses. I'm replacing the old rubber lines with new lines reinforce with steel braided jackets:

Here's the right rear suspension arm. You can just see the brake hose at the top right of the photo.

Here's the upper end of the right rear hose; it attaches the metal line that runs the length of the body.

I have to first remove the metal line that comes from the wheel.

With the metal line removed, I just have to get this clip out of the bracket to get the hose free on the lower end.

Old and new brake hoses. The wheels move around in relation to the car body, and the brake hoses are there to be a flexible means to deliver the brake fluid to the brakes, which ride with the wheels. It's very important for them to be long enough. The metal line is just slightly longer than the stock rubber line, which is probably on purpose.

The finished product. This is the first new part that I've put actually on the car during this brake project.