Although greatly simplified, this diagram shows the brake plumbing to be a closed system which must be totally leakfree. Brake line plumbing seems to be one of those foreboding parts of a vehicle that ...

While many hot rods are driven with rough-running engines, suspensions that are too stiff, or horns that don't work, no car, hot rod or not, should be driven with brakes that aren't 100 percent. Since ...