How hard is re-bending brake lines?
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How hard is re-bending brake lines?
I have acquired a MC for my big brake kit, but I need to bend some lines. Are there tools required, techniques I should know?
I can make a how-to guide with pics if someone tells me how to bend lines properly.
Thanks!
I can make a how-to guide with pics if someone tells me how to bend lines properly.
Thanks!
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Re: How hard is re-bending brake lines?
If you want to make nice bends and not kink stuff get a tubing bender (if you're making wide bends you wont need it, but its easy to kink brake lines bending them without it if it's a tight bend. You'll also need a flaring kit. As long as its just regular brake line it's not hard, if it's stainless steel good luck.
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Re: How hard is re-bending brake lines?
A tubing bender. I will procure one. Here is the situation..
As you can see I have two lines on the driver side (bottom of pic) at 90 degrees and 45 degrees.
Here is a front view of my hardline setup. (Driver side on right)
And here's my donor. It has two lines on the passenger side (picture taken from passenger side.)
From the front you can see it has two lines at 90 degrees, but they are on the wrong side.
Is this going to be do-able with a tubing bender without over-stressing anything? (It looks like I will also need a 10x1mm to 12x1mm adapter.
Will I need to flaring kit? For what I'm not understanding...
thanks for your help man I really do appreciate all that you do on HT.
As you can see I have two lines on the driver side (bottom of pic) at 90 degrees and 45 degrees.
Here is a front view of my hardline setup. (Driver side on right)
And here's my donor. It has two lines on the passenger side (picture taken from passenger side.)
From the front you can see it has two lines at 90 degrees, but they are on the wrong side.
Is this going to be do-able with a tubing bender without over-stressing anything? (It looks like I will also need a 10x1mm to 12x1mm adapter.
Will I need to flaring kit? For what I'm not understanding...
thanks for your help man I really do appreciate all that you do on HT.
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Re: How hard is re-bending brake lines?
If you can bend the lines without kinking them then no you wont need a flare kit.
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Re: How hard is re-bending brake lines?
I have my MC ready and I will be rebending lines as described above with a bending tool.
If I kink any, I'll just have to cut and flare them, then add a SS flex-line with the appropriate adapters to take up the space by my fckup.
I'll post up a guide/diy when I do this. Thanks again HT.
If I kink any, I'll just have to cut and flare them, then add a SS flex-line with the appropriate adapters to take up the space by my fckup.
I'll post up a guide/diy when I do this. Thanks again HT.
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