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Adam:
Not that there appears to be anything "wrong" with mine but they are pretty old and now off the car so was thinking of getting some braided brake hoses. I hear they give a better brake pedal feel, is there a place to buy them or is making your own the way to go?

On the seperate subject of the metal brake lines- I'll probably need to change mine because my front crossmemeber is a bit defferent now. Is theres some sort of semi-flexible solution or do they need to be custom made? I assume anyone with a mirror conversion would have had this issue come up, so im sorry if its an obvious answer...

thanks!

adam

Vette Obsessed:
Best to buy them from what I understand.  For them to last (and be legal) I understand they need to have teflon ends which are less likely to break at the end (hardly what you want to happen to your brake hoses...).

My reading about what made the ends of the road legal ones different was too long ago to recall the specifics.  Plus its late and I'm not too sharp on my recollection right now...;36

Custom making new hard lines would probably be no harder than mucking around with flexible inserts in sections (and would probably be more reliable/durable) by my reckoning...

GAS.455:
I spoke to a few brake places when I was doing the custom setup on my '60 Pontiac....THey all bend the tubes by hand...what I did...buy the metal brake line from them....and then I bent the line to shape at home...cut to length using a small pipe cutter(I think I even bought it from Super Cheap Auto)...then took the lines upto the brake place and got them to Double Flare the line ends...then I took it home and fitted it...it cost me bugger all....wasn't hard..

Just make sure that you secure the brake line to the chassis properly so it doesn't rub at all anywhere...and use rubber grommets when going through metal....

That was the only mistake that I made...not securing the lines properly...they rubbed and wore a hole in the pipe and then failed...but that has been fixed and properly secured....

Greg

MJ355:
my uncles make braided and stainlees steel brake lines if u want some done let me know and ill get some prices for u

Cameron 77C3:
You can get a softer pedal with flexiable lines and if your getting engineer certificates, some but not all, engineers don't like flexiable lines.  Thats what I've found during the brake mods I did on my beast.  Not gospil.

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