I recently purchased a set of techna-fit SS brakelines for my 93 civic ex. I thought they were one of the brands with a clear coating to protect the SS braiding from wear/dirt, but I was wrong. Has anyone tried putting their own coating on New SS brakelines? I was thinki9ng of possibly using the "liquid electric tape" at home depot(more commonly used for dipping the hancdles of pliers, etc in to give them a rubber coating). My only thought on this is that the coating would obviously not be clear, so i would have no way of visually inspecting the SS braiding. Any thoughts, suggestions?

 

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the ace hardware by me sells tubing you can buy whatever diameter/length you want.

just go to a hardware store and see if they sell this tubing, probably near the plumbing department. then get enough clear tubing that will fit over the lines.

you might need a way to seal the ends of the tubes to the lines so that if there is a break you don't leak fluid all over the place.

I did this on my mechanical oil pressure guage so that oil won't get into my cabin area of that plastic tube breaks. for 4 feet it was about 3 dollars.

good luck

 

Not sure how weather resistant you need it, but clear heat shrink tubing would work well if you got the right heat range.

 

where did you get your hoses?
I bought techna's from king motorsports and they have a plastic coat on the outside

 

I got mine straight from their website http://techna-fit.com/
As far as clear tubing goes, I'm trying to find something that fits tight around the line, and it seems the size I would need to clear the end fittings would not be snug at all, once in place(unless I'm misunderstanding you). I didnt realize there was clear heatshrink tubing- I'll have to check that out- again hoping that it will shrink enough to fit tight over the braiding.