Pre-Bent or OEM replacement brake lines?

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Jrgunn5150

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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.


I say at work all the time, there's a thousand ways to skin a cat, and 980 of them work just fine.
 
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Does your disc brake conversion vendor not offer a hose replacement for those hard lines?

The one I was looking at had everything to go from the junction block on the axle out to the new calipers available as options.

Seemed a lot easier than replacing the metal lines, flaring them, and then connecting them to a short hose out at the end of the axle.

The hoses went from that junction block to the caliper and had the correct banjo bolt already on them.


Second question: What conversion are you doing? I was tossing around the idea (chased brake gremlins in that axle for a while) but the cost and hassle of adding a parking brake to discs got in the way of the decision to move forward long enough for me to solve the problem with the drums.
 

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Lugnut 4x4 give's you absolutely everything in their kit, but maybe he's just making his own?
 

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Yep, rolling my own. I'm modifying a bracket kit that I bought off a guy on another forum that works for the older 12 bolts. I'm going to have to get the main piece re-cut to match the newer 10 bolt flange.

But when it's all said and done I'll have 5th gen corvette pads, rotors, calipers and hoses so theoretically in an emergency I could walk into any parts shop and pick up replacements. FYI, Amazon lists the C5 AC Delco rotors for $32 each with free shipping. I will have to drill the stud holes out on the rotors though because the C5s had 12mm studs.
 

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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.
Where did you find them? I'd like the factory look on my axle again. Sorry to sidetrack your thread OP.
 

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