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  • Alternative to braided clutch hose

    Clearing some stuff out of my garage and I found my old clutch hose in a the new replacement's bag. I used a brake hose which fits a few old BMW models (E21 3-Series to be exact), the hose is BFH2531 at £8.86+vat from www.brakeparts.co.uk.

    35cm long with same female fittings either end.

    The standard clutch hose is very soft and bulges under depression of the clutch and squashes easily (a brake hose is designed to withstand massively higher pressures than the clutch system will ever see so doesn't do this at all), there is also the suspicion there is a restriction in the hose either by a smaller diameter output or CDV but the brake hose is straight through. The braided hose is a popular replacement but I found the NVH increased a lot; the rubber brake hose transmits less NVH than the more rigid braided hose.
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