07 May 11 08:58, Mark Hofmann wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
      
      
    >> The speedo cable needed lub...non-stainless brake lines do that. My   
    >> friend wanted to buy an old Buick with rusted lines and wanted me to   
    >> change them out, for free! Not.   
      
    MH> I had replaced the speedo cable twice.  Both times, it would last   
    MH> about 8 months and then start acting erratically.  Then just stop   
    MH> working.  It started after the 350 transmission swap.   
      
   Hmmm. Can't imagine why that would happen unless you got two faulty   
   cables in a row.   
      
    MH> I don't know why any car would be made without stainless steal brake   
    MH> lines.   
      
   I couldn't either, at the time.   
      
    MH> Anything other than that will rust and snap eventually, especially in   
    MH> areas that use salt on the roads in the winter.   
      
   Not in Texas...TXDOT uses the same chemical on roads that airports use to   
   de-ice airplane wings.   
      
    MH> I thought the same thing about mufflers.  At least GM started making   
    MH> stainless steel mufflers.  I still have my original muffler on my 2k2   
    MH> MC.  It looks fine, too.  I would have gone through at least 3 of the   
    MH> old type by now.   
      
   Even so, those mufflers and pipes will eventually fail from the inside   
   out. Moisture and combustion acids combine to eat even stainless steel.   
      
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