brake line source

[mjtjnj]

is there any company out there that makes pre-bent brake lines? I lost one a couple of years ago on the rear left axle, and now the one that comes up and over the rear axle blew. Fun when you're driving! Instead of patching yet another piece in until another blows out....any ideas?

 

Tom

 

:headpop:

[summerinmaine]

is there any company out there that makes pre-bent brake lines? I lost one a couple of years ago on the rear left axle, and now the one that comes up and over the rear axle blew. Fun when you're driving! Instead of patching yet another piece in until another blows out....any ideas?

 

Tom

 

:headpop:

 

Why not just make your own? Bending brake lines is pretty simple. I've built custom set-ups for some of my sports cars, and it takes minimal time and few special tools. Using Aeroquips at the corners also helps.

[mjtjnj]

I have trouble splicing a line. I have a decent bender, I just know I'd end up with a giant pretzel, and be tangled at the middle of it. How do you got about it? I'm not even sure what the apparatus you mentioned does.

 

Do you get a giant length (is is 3/8"?) of steel tubing and make the bends, or do it piecemeal?

 

thanks

Tom :popcorn:

[mjtjnj]

Jim--

 

Looks like my rear hose that goes into the splitter on the axle is beat up, so I'm going to replace it. I think I remember you doing a longer one (I'm lifted 3-4") from -- was it a van??

 

Anyone?

 

thanks

tom

[ORCA]

Jim--

 

Looks like my rear hose that goes into the splitter on the axle is beat up, so I'm going to replace it. I think I remember you doing a longer one (I'm lifted 3-4") from -- was it a van??

 

Anyone?

 

thanks

tom

 

Dodge van? I'm just guessing...

 

All your brakeline troubles can be solved here:

http://www.russellperformance.com/automotive/

http://www.stainlesssteelbrakes.com/

[mjtjnj]

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[mjtjnj]

can anyone recommend a longer rear brake hose for my 87 MJ??

 

[Pete M]

Mid 90s Dakota.

[mjtjnj]

thanks, Pete!

 

maybe early-mid 90s? I just went to autozone.com and there's different ones for 1995 and 1997

 

 

Tom

[Pete M]

I think mine was a 95.

[Bacon]

how much longer is the 95 dak line? i'm about to go from 3" to about 5" or 6"(soa 8.8 w/2wd leaves). will the 95 dak line be long enough?

[87manche]

how much longer is the 95 dak line? i'm about to go from 3" to about 5" or 6"(soa 8.8 w/2wd leaves). will the 95 dak line be long enough?

should be, I'm at 4" and I had to put a spring on the line to keep it up out of the way.

[mjtjnj]

Yup. I got one, as Pete recommended, for a 95, and it was 3-4" longer than original. I did away with the return line and the proportioning valve, and I actually have pretty solid tube from front to back now. Don't need to go through THAT again.

 

Thanks Pete

 

Tom :redX: