Red clutch hose.

[andyblackman777]

So after getting some flack about still having this red hose on my car (another thread). I ordered a new braided one. 
After inspection today it appears that I have a hard line running the length of the car underneath alongside the power steering pipes. It runs up the chassis tube to just level with the slave cylinder where there is a section of braided line to join the two. 
From the master cylinder there is a red plastic hose, which I guess joins the hard line somewhere below.
Does anyone know if this is normal on some cars?
One less job😀

ps I have never had any couch issues. 

[910Esprit]

Don't know if that was a later factory 'innovation' but it sounds like a better solution than 100% flexy.  NB my red hose is 36 years old and works great.

[jonwat]

21 hours ago, andyblackman777 said:

Does anyone know if this is normal on some cars?

Yes it is. After years of denying there was a problem with the plastic hose ballooning in hot weather Lotus decided to fit a metal hose to the V8 Esprit. 

[LOTUSMAN33]

In the 90’s before forum help I actually sold my beautiful 84 Turbo due to the clutch issues after fitting two clutch assemblies and the two cylinders. It would never happen these days. I even paid a garage to do the second clutch as thought it was something I was missing..... which I was 😂

I haven’t even looked to try the clutch on my JPS as since that they get changed out generally although I have had cars with still perfect operation being over 30 years old.

Never really noticed this on my V8 but makes sense.

Dave  

[jonwat]

1 hour ago, LOTUSMAN33 said:

In the 90’s before forum help I actually sold my beautiful 84 Turbo due to the clutch issues 

Same here, two S3s & a Stevens' turbo before I joined the Yahoo Lotus forum & discovered "red hose syndrom". Fitted a braided hose to my S4s & fixed the problem 😃