ADR approved braided brake lines - some information regarding legalities.

**4DaDrift** · 05-01-2011, 12:56 AM

Hi everyone,

Been researching for an upgrade of brake and clutch lines and wanted to clear up some myths in regards to ADR approved braided brake lines that I've came across and share what little knowledge I have.

The old ADR 7 meant that all braided lines had to pass a whip test.. and without the ADR approved sheaths over the line near the end fittings, they would not be ADR approved.

Like this..

This is now OBSOLETE.

The new regulation is..

ADR 42 - General Safety Requirements
The function of this Australian Design Rule is to specify design and construction requirements to ensure safe operation of vehicles.
Vehicle Standard (Australian Design Rule 42/04 ?
General Safety Requirements) 2005
Compilation: 1 (up to and including Vehicle Standard (Australian Design Rule
42/04 ? General Safety Requirements) 2005 Amendment 1)
Compilation Date: 12th October 2007
Compiled by: Vehicle Safety Standards, Department of Transport and Regional
Services

15. BRAKE TUBING AND BRAKE HOSE
Flexible hydraulic brake hoses, air or vacuum brake tubing and air and
vacuum hose, flexible and hydraulic power hose between the Brake
Power Unit 31/00 or Brake Power Unit 35/00 and the master cylinder
or its equivalent must conform to SAA, SAE, BS, JIS, DIN, ISO or ECE
Standards specified for flexible brake hoses, air brake tubing or hose or
vacuum brake tubing or hose or hydraulic power tubing or hose and be
fitted to the vehicle as to prevent chafing, kinking or other mechanical
damage under normal motion of the parts to which they are attached.

So basically, anything which comes from one of the reputable manufacturers i.e. Goodridge, AP etc, will be ADR approved. I'm not sure of any other manufacturer unless they specify that they are built to one of the above standards, but I'd hazard a guess many would be.

To simplify it.. any braided line must fall under one of the other world standards to be ADR approved. They don't necessarily have to look like the image above to be ADR approved.

Hope this helps a few folks... and this is in the right section and has not been posted before (Search didn't reveal anything)

**MWP** · 05-01-2011, 10:42 AM

Thanks for the heads up, thats some good info.
So i guess my Goodridge lines are now legal

+rep

**TERRA Operative** · 05-01-2011, 10:48 AM

I got some lines custom made the other week for my Wilwoods by a mobile guy here in Brisbane, and they don't have that rubber bit. They are ADR approved and just have a little collar that has a number on it instead to display it's certification or something.

He basically reiterated what's in the first post.

**takai** · 05-01-2011, 10:52 AM

The biggest difference is that you can now have a metal collar like this:

This is what can happen to the rubber collars:

Get too hot, and then soft and then pull away and tear apart.

**fixeruperer** · 05-01-2011, 11:55 AM

mine are goodridge one's and they have like a pretty basic paper, sticky tape label.
i paid like $140ea from Perth brake parts, and they passed pits and engineering a few years ago. everyone said, what ever you do, dont remove that label....
for something thats meant to be pretty important, its a shit label haha.