Front brakes...
AJV wrote
Thanks for your reply and words of caution. Contrary to how my post can, I now realise, be read, I don't have a death wish and never had any intention of re-fitting the original rubber brake lines... I could have worded it better.
So, to start again. The (only) previous owner took off the original front brake plumbing and fitted a single braided line down next to the right fork, with a tee-piece to supply the left hand caliper; he used some rather tasteful (not!) red and blue anodised fittings as well. I think it's particularly the anodised bits that jarr with me (and have actually been mentioned as Advisories on a couple of MoT inspections). What I had in mind to do is/was to re-use the splitter, and use the rubber hoses as patterns to have some braided lines made - these would be stainless braided construction with a black covering - Goodridge and Hel both seem to offer kits for the SP3 but I'm not sure exactly what they contain - I've asked them. In a concession to modernity I'll probably use stainless bolts in place of the furry originals.
Now, at last, the questions. I have the splitter (I think I can figure out where that goes!) and three rubber pipes. Two of them have sharply angled fittings at the end, and I assume these pipes go from the splitter to the calipers. Which end attaches to the caliper? Which attaches to the top of the caliper - the hose or the bleed nipple (at the moment the bleed nipple is at the top)? The pictures workshop manual I have aren't very clear.
Thanks again.
