thanks for the replies, everyone! tomorrow i will be replacing my plastic line with the steel-braided replacement. should i follow the workshop manual instructions, short of seperating frame from body, or is there an easy way? for instance, should i just unhook the line at the slave cylinder, let all the fluid run out, unhook it from the master cylinder, and then take it off the clips that hold it to the chassis or whatever (i haven't actually looked at the thing closely yet, so i'm not sure how it all runs yet)? are the clips/ties/whatever reusable or should i expect to need to make a hardware store run once i see what i am dealing with? will the old fluid drain from the slave and master cylinders when i unhook the line or will it stay in there? when i replace the fluid, do i just dump it into the reservior and follow the bleeding procedures in the shop manual? any other insights or tips are more than welcome. i will post the list how my experience went next week. thanks! Andy Soma576@xxxx 1982 DeLorean DMC-12 VIN#11596 Fargo, ND 58102 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]