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Thank Neil, Could you please let the forum know what price you want for the number, so that potentially interested parties will know whether to pursue this or not. Many thanks and kind regards, Gareth.

Hi Gareth the only thing that can be done is when taking on a new signee make sure that they have to read the propriety section and further to that if they post a problem they must supply ALL information pertaining to that fault, codes/pictures, after all that is a small price to pay for joining a forum with no subscription and last but not least inform the forum if the advice given was successful. Steve.

The Ford forum sounds a very interesting and worthwhile approach Steve. As Steve Q rightly claims - we are a friendly and helpful bunch - and I think he is right. Too helpful sometimes?? personally, I find it increasingly difficult not to be helpful - if I can, so where from here?? Kind regards, Gareth.

Hi I have run all of my cabs on a preemptive maintenance schedule and covered over 900,000 miles and never had to change a rubber brake hose on the fronts, or a metal brake pipe for that matter Fords used alloy brake pipes and there lies the problem [bi metal corrosion] in fact the last car went to its new owner with over 270k on the clock, the thing that causes most problems with any brake pipe is lack of timely fluid changes as its the water in the fluid that is the catalyst for premature corrosion, apart from which to get the correct length and shape for a copper replacement you will have to present the original as a pattern and pray the people who do it have the correct kit to follow that pattern bending and angle tools, it is nowhere as simple as it looks and if you manage to kink the copper pipe its game over. Steve.

Unfortunately Jack hasn’t returned to the forum since shortly after his original post, so it looks like any advice given has not been received. Not sure what more the forum can do.