Re: The VW Jetta GLX Mailing List Digest V2 #66

["Mike DiTullio" <mikedt@ibm.net>]

Yes you are overlooking 2. For the rear there are 2 lines, one each side, that 
connect the line running under the car to the line that runs on the rear 
control arm. Since the arm moves up and down a flexible connections is needed 
at that joint.

On  1 Mar 98 at 13:53, The VW Jetta GLX Mailing List wrote:

> Subject: Brake Lines
> 
> Hey guys,
> 
> After getting home today from the VWCOLA meeting
> at Timmons (which by the way was great. The new
> bettle would be cool with the 1.8T Quatro), I
> decided to start the install of my brake lines
> (braided stainless).  I opened the box to
> discover 6 brake lines 2 long, 2 short (male one
> end female the other), and 2 more short ones
> (female both ends).  I could only find 4 rubber
> lines on my car (95).  Am I over looking 2?  Do
> the later cars have 2 more somewhere and they
> just supplied the extra just incase I had a later
> car?  Anyone done this install?  
> 
> BTW I'm using the ATE super blue fluid.  Pain in
> the ass to purge all the old crap.  I was way
> over do....pushing 3 years.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve Harris
> 1995 4X4 GLX :-)
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