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Thread: Correct Color for Braided Brake Fluid Reservoir Lines?

  1. 04-25-2017, 12:55 PM #1
    tom1394racing
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    Correct Color for Braided Brake Fluid Reservoir Lines?

    What is the correct color for the cloth braided tubing that connects the two brake fluid reservoir exit lines to the plastic feed lines for the master cylinder on a 1970 911?

    The photos I have seen and all the old reservoirs I have in my stash have black cloth tubing. I was told by someone knowledgeable that they are supposed to be blue.

    Which is correct?
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  2. 04-25-2017, 01:02 PM #2
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    Nowadays when you buy the hose from ATE (for exactly this purpose not fuel line) it is blue
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  3. 04-25-2017, 01:15 PM #3
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    I know you can buy it new in either blue or black. My question is what was the correct original color?
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  4. 04-25-2017, 03:03 PM #4
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    UAI is correct,,,,blue IS for brake fluid,,,,but they came black back in the day.
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  5. 04-25-2017, 06:02 PM #5
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    I recently bot brake fluid hose from Porsche, it was black.
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    I dyed half my length of blue tubing black.
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    Unrestored RS #197..pretty sure the line was original as it was very old very hard and a bit frayed...and black
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  8. 04-26-2017, 03:20 AM #8
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    Thanks for setting me straight
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  9. 04-26-2017, 03:50 AM #9
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    Quote Originally Posted by gled49 View Post
    I recently bot brake fluid hose from Porsche, it was black.
    Good to know - when you're searching for black lines buy from Porsche
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  10. 04-26-2017, 04:17 AM #10
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    More to it than just the color...

    http://www.early911sregistry.org/for...ir-hoses-black
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