Pre-Bent or OEM replacement brake lines?

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jimdaug

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Does no one offer pre-bent lines?

I'm not really wanting stainless either.

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Amazon's only bringing up parking brake cables and rubber hoses. I probably should have mentioned it's for a '97 regular cab short bed so that may be making a difference. Rock Auto isn't showing anything either.

They're not rusted. I'm doing a rear disc conversion so I need to cut it and add a different fitting, but I don't want to bend it from scratch and I've read/heard that stainless can be a royal pain to flare.
 

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I'm with Dylan, I just did copper/nickel fronts on mine, it was silly easy, and cost me about 35 bucks for something that will literally never ever rust out on me.
 

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Yeh the lines out to the wheel cylinders are not hard to bend in cupro/nickel at all. I did by hand and flared them on the bench. The toughest one to do was the front to rear 1/4" line because you have to install it, measure it, cut it then pull it out, flare it then reinstall and fine tune. In all I will go this route from now on on all my future turds.
 

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I will be also, it's too easy not too. To hell with that stupid stiff stainless crap, and absurd prebent prices.
 

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I recently looked, and you can buy a whole kit for around 200. I ended up buying just the two lines that go across the rear axle, prebent and with the factory protective coil around it for $35 shipped.
 

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^^^ That's what I'm doing. Many ways to skin a cat and to each his own. $35 and getting it done quick is worth it to me.
 
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