garethrl
Senior Retro Guru
Hi folks,
I have a single HS33 EVO2 that I want to run on the rear so need a longer hose. A friend was putting a CRC order together recently so I sent him the link to tag one on to the order. However, said link offers two options, one specified for all rim brakes and the Julie disk, and another for all disks other than Julie. Being a numpty I forgot to specify the one I wanted so he went and ordered the disk one - mainly because it was the only one of the two that was in stock.
Is it possible to use this apparently disk-specific hose in my rim brake? I emailed Maggie's tech support and they gave me an emphatic "No", along with some tech talk about high vs low pressure systems. Annoyingly, CRC have been out of stock of the rim brake hose for ages and no longer even have a restock date for it by now.
(Incidentally, I can't see how the pressure differential between the two can be vast and that the plastic hoses would therefore differ greatly, but I'm no hydraulics expert ...)
Any opinions? Is it worth a try, or is the disk hose designed not to fit into a rim brake?
Cheers, Gareth.
I have a single HS33 EVO2 that I want to run on the rear so need a longer hose. A friend was putting a CRC order together recently so I sent him the link to tag one on to the order. However, said link offers two options, one specified for all rim brakes and the Julie disk, and another for all disks other than Julie. Being a numpty I forgot to specify the one I wanted so he went and ordered the disk one - mainly because it was the only one of the two that was in stock.
Is it possible to use this apparently disk-specific hose in my rim brake? I emailed Maggie's tech support and they gave me an emphatic "No", along with some tech talk about high vs low pressure systems. Annoyingly, CRC have been out of stock of the rim brake hose for ages and no longer even have a restock date for it by now.
(Incidentally, I can't see how the pressure differential between the two can be vast and that the plastic hoses would therefore differ greatly, but I'm no hydraulics expert ...)
Any opinions? Is it worth a try, or is the disk hose designed not to fit into a rim brake?
Cheers, Gareth.