My front brake lines get squiched between the frame and the tire. Do I need to buy brake lines that have a 90 in them where they attach to the frame?
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My front brake lines get squiched between the frame and the tire. Do I need to buy brake lines that have a 90 in them where they attach to the frame?
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I think many guys rivet the brake line bracket so it faces downward.
There's also a 90-degree adapter you can put inline, using the same lines.
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You can also loosen one side, turn the line a bit before you re tighten and try that a few times until the line no longer touches.
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Just put a rigid piece of split plastic or rubber tubing over a short portion of the line. That will deflect the line away from the tire.
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Like Rich GRSC said, rather than point your hose at the tire, re-mount your brackets to the top surface of the 3/4" square tube, and re-make your hard lines, so the hose points down forming a "u" bend in the hose. Braided hose likes to roll but not twist.
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What Rich and Mark said.
Jeff
The flex line has too much of a straight run before it’s flexible, about 2.5”. I think the only solution is to place the 90 deg fitting as Initiator suggested, any idea on what size these fitting are, 3AN ??
I also tried rotating the fittings around and moving the retainer bracket on the passanger side inboard on the tube, both helped a little but not enough.
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Thanks everyone for the help
No harm in trimming back the strain relief sleeve to about 1/2 its original length, but you should still do what 3 people have recommended so far. (in my opinion )
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Running new brake lines is not something I would want to do again, just another thing I’m not very good at. Summit has these fittings 966303ERL couple of these would seem to take care of my issue.
Last edited by bobm488; 11-26-2019 at 09:35 PM.
Those will help a lot, and from what I've seen about 8 out of 10 roadsters could use them.
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Bobm,
I bought a 90 degree fitting and used the same lines.
It is hard to tell from the picture but it looks like you trimmed the adjustment collar on the leading upper control arm. I believe the trailing one is the one that needs to be trimmed to get more castor. You should probably switch collars from front to back now while you can easily get to them.
Gary
Thanks guys, I'll switch the adjustment collars. It wount be the first time I've had to do something a couple of times.
90 deg fittings added and adjustment collars switched, thanks again!
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