Will or Marty or ???: Need a brake line (pic inside)

lanceputnam

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I need this brake line, the one that goes from the modulator to the drivers side wheel. I just need the hard line, not the rubber lines after it stops in the wheel well. My current one has corroded nut syndrome. In the line of four on the modulator in the pic below, it is the far right one that runs right down to the drivers wheel well. Let me know a price shipped to 87109. Priority mail would be nice to get it here quickly. Thanks!

 

fishEH

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Just buy a hardline at your local parts shop and bend it up. I have brake line bending pliers and a cheap flaring tool so I can do custom lengths. I've replaced all the hard lines at my calipers by making my own. Better than the $70 or whatever AB wants for a prebent one.
Whenever I have a seized line I cut the line with sidecutters right at the nut. Then stick a 6pt socket on the fitting and back it out. Pop the remaining 1" of brake line and flare through the fitting. I keep all the old fittings in a box so I can custom make lines later.

I'm not even sure how to economically ship a prebent brake line where it wouldn't get damaged?
 

lanceputnam

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Tried that last time. Non of the parts stores carried a line that matched. It has two different sized fittings on the end. One of them, I think the one going into the mod, is some odd size.
 

fishEH

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lanceputnam said:
Tried that last time. Non of the parts stores carried a line that matched. It has two different sized fittings on the end. One of them, I think the one going into the mod, is some odd size.
Yeah I know. Cut the old line and pull the fitting off. Cut the new fitting off the new line, slip the old odd size fitting on, and flare the line. Done.
 

lanceputnam

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fishEH said:
Yeah I know. Cut the old line and pull the fitting off. Cut the new fitting off the new line, slip the old odd size fitting on, and flare the line. Done.



Yep, thats what we did last time. No response from the vendors on this board so looks like I'll be doing it again. Thanks.