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....using a flare union....
.....twitch, twitch..... that'd get my OCD going, just knowing it was there:shocked:
....using a flare union....
but....but.... the factory didn't do it that way..... twitch....twitch..... dammit-- now I'm twitching and it's not even mine...... thanx, gotta go see the therapist now.....:wow:![]()
yeah... screw that line :smsoap:
also OCD about brake lines looking good. I ended up cutting the line 6" below the pinch seam in the firewall on the passenger side and using a flare union since only the part along the right frame rail and in the right front wheel well was actually bad.
Patience is the key - I did mine, but the vehicle was off the road for a major overhaul. Not something you want to have to install to drive it to work in an hour, for sure.
Mark
it's one of the bigger tests of your patience you will encounter on a Jeep. I hit the boneyard and cut out another line so I could replicate it before I started ripping mine apart.
I can't count the number of times I was under the Jeep when I should have been reaching in from the top and the number of times I was reaching in from the top when I should have been under it!
In all honesty, it shouldn't be that difficult to get a line in there-- I'm just a little obsessive/compulsive about making it look like it did from the factory.
yeah... screw that line :smsoap:
also OCD about brake lines looking good. I ended up cutting the line 6" below the pinch seam in the firewall on the passenger side and using a flare union since only the part along the right frame rail and in the right front wheel well was actually bad.
Instead of bothering bending all your own up, CALL THE DEALER for the hard lines. I bought all 6 of the front lines from a local dealer and they were $22 TOTAL prebent with all the fittings already on them. The passenger side was a matter of fishing it through all the wiring and random junk, but was definitely doable.
OOOOOh now thats a bitch, But yea i have done it once starting with an un-bent line, and well never do it again.Has anyone here replaced their front passenger hard brake line?
I've replaced almost all the others, but this one looks like a nightmare.
I can't see how you can get the 5-6' line bent and put into place in the same way as the original. They must put those in at the factory before the motor or the electrical loom.
Have people actually bent up their own hard lines, or are there other options for replacement?
Just finished the hard brake line on the driver's side with some help. Will bleed lines tomorrow to check for leaks and such. But I know one thing. NEVER AGAIN! NEVER NEVER NEVER! That was terrible.
Terrible is a sigmoidoscopy, what you had to deal with was just a minor pain in the A**.
Just finished the hard brake line on the driver's side with some help. Will bleed lines tomorrow to check for leaks and such. But I know one thing. NEVER AGAIN! NEVER NEVER NEVER! That was terrible.
The lines at the master cylinder are bubble flared and have 12x1 and 10x1 metric fittings. You can not do the bubble flare yourself. You can buy a short section of line with a bubble flare at one end, or buy adapters for the MC to convert to double flare. The prop valve's fittings are 3/16" tube, double flare. However, the fittings themselves vary. There is only one that is the correct 3/8" x24 for the 3/16" line. The rest are larger. You can reuse the fittings if they come out ok. Also, listen to Kastien as he has some good info.
Don't know if you have done it yet, but I figured I would add this for future searched.