Hey lady, it's a Tank not a Boat.

I had the brakes go out on me one time back when I was a mechanic. I rolled into traffic and got T-boned before I could figure out what to do. I had just enough time to stop on the dead brake pedal twice before it was all over.

I've seen and replaced some seriously rusty brake and fuel hard lines. I've broken them just from looking at them. None of the European manufacturers coated their hard lines properly. Replace them with cupro-nickel alloy lines or end up in a lake.