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You guys in the land of salt sure have a lot of problems with steel brake lines and fittings. Around here that is seldom a problem. You would think the car makers would have anticipated that being a problem with the brake and fuel lines and used a different metal that wouldn't be so prone to rust. I guess there decisions are based more on cost than longevity.

OOps, that's exactly what it is, taken earlier when I was replacing the calipers and hoses, sorry. The connections are so far underneath the master and my phone doesn't take very good closeups and there's so much going on down there so taking a better pic is almost impossible.

A Riv switch from 1990 to 1993 will work in a 1991 Reatta. The 1990 Reatta headlight switch is a Reatta only switch.

My wife pulled out of the garage and I stood there admiring the beauty of the '89 triple blue Reatta.

I agree about the upper Midwest for interior parts. Our temperatures are very moderate and the plastic and leather is not dried out.

That is true. Around here it's hard on cars for them to sit outside in the sun most of the time. It's common for headliners to come lose and fall down due to the foam backing getting brittle and letting go. The sun is really hard on the dash and steering wheels and it causes clear coat to turn milky and start peeling. I try to keep my vehicles parked in the garage as much as I can.

That's why when I call a shop for repairs I no longer want to do I explain to them that while my car is older it's not a rusted out sh*tbox. I am spoiled myself as my wife's car is 2 years old and except for the Black my cars don't see winters. However this summer I did spray the fuel and brake lines with undercoating. Hopefully that will help.

So the brake switch pushed into the bracket didn't fix the problem, so I'm off the next few weeks after my wife has her surgery Tuesday I'm going to go in deeper into it and remove the servo, it had no continuity but I'm going o try again maybe I didn't have ohm meter set right, wish me luck have a great day and I'll keep ya posted!

Interesting this subject came up now. Originally this would have been a post in What did you do....etc. My intention was to put the Reatta up for the winter, which is at my cottage in the heart of deer country in this state. When the Reatta goes to sleep, the old 4wd Ranger wakes up for the winter. The wake up wasn't an issue but it promptly blew a front brake line before it even got off the lift where it is stored😢 My own fault too, grrrr. I just replaced all the rear brake lines earlier this year for the same issue, and, the power steering lines which had a rust hole in the steel part. I knew the front brake lines looked bad but for for some reason it fell off my radar and now I must address them. Some of the rear lines I replaced were available in pre fabricated form, which is nice since F**d in their wisdom uses different sized fittings on opposite ends of various lines which makes just buying generic lines at the FLAPS untenable. For some reason, front lines for a 4wd 25year Ranger old are not available prefabricated🤨, which requires I make the lines myself with a large selection of fittings for the ends. Not happy about that but even more concerned about taking the Buick slowly back home at this time of the year, through a deer gauntlet. Visions of what happened to Daves89 old black car when #1 son decided to drive it one more time because of nice weather under similar conditions and losing the right fender, headlight assembly and hood due to a deer encounter. At the risk of jinxing myself, I have never hit a deer, "knock on head", but I have hit turkeys and chickens which seem to be particularly suicidal by doubling back in front of the vehicle after initially reaching safety.

Glad to hear there was no major damage. If I have to drive the back roads at night I drive my GMC pickup that I converted to LED light bulbs. I also did a mod on the wiring to make the low beams stay on when I turn on the high beams. It made a huge difference in the amount of light I can put out in front of my truck. It looks like the lights on a 747 coming in for a landing at night. 🙂

Just came back in from the garage and I am happy to say. maybee a scratch and a rub mark [that I can easily buff out] but other then that it looks like I got lucky. Years ago when I had an El Camino there was a deer running across the field towards the road I was driving on. Just as I got abreast of him he jumped and I was sure he was going to land in the box, but he missed me. Prior to last night that is the closest I ever came to hitting a deer. I also want to give a shout out to my "Truc-Lite" brand of LED headlights. They really light up the road, not just down the road but also peripherally down into the ditch. Pricey but well worth it.

I like the idea of electric cars. They have a lot of advantages over gas powered cars like no fluids to leak out. Very quiet. Instant torque when you hit the accelerator and they are probably economic to drive if you don't factor in the cost of buying it. What I don't like about them is the purchase price, battery range before recharging, and the emissions coming out the exhaust pipes. Here is what the exhaust pipe looks like. People usually don't consider the exhaust pipes when they talk about electric cars being pollution free: