Eddie Hintz had a fine cautionary tale about spewing gasoline. My cautionary tale is about brake line grommets, those little rubber doughnuts that keep your metal brake lines from rubbing on other metal parts. Given the unprecedented hot spell here in balmy southern Michigan, (temps in the 45 F range!!) I was rooting around under my '62 getting ready for a valve adjustment, when I noticed that the rubber grommets were missing or broken from both my rear wheels' brake lines. Fortunately it had happened recently enough that there was no shininess or chafing evident ("chafing," don't you hate that word?). I don't want to think about what could have happened if the line had worn through and spewed all the fluid from my single-master-cylinder system. Be careful out there. Mark mjanello@umich.edu '62 Kombi
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