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  • haaken675
    Mod Crazy
    • Sep 2016
    • 601

    #1

    new brake lines prebent?

    Hey guys. While swapping in my stainless steel brake and clutch lines, I ended up with two issues. The front passenger hard line was so corroded that the fitting stripped out and I couldn't actually get it off. Same thing happened with the clutch line. It looks like someone had previously removed them and likely stripped the nuts and used something like vice grips in order to get them tight enough.

    I found the part numbers for the hard lines on real oem and looks like a few places carry them. The pictures just show straight lines that being said. Do the lines come pre bent, or should I just go about making my own? I feel like if I have to bend them myself as is and purchase a small tube bender, I might as well just make them myself.
  • Zambuzan
    E30 Addict
    • Nov 2017
    • 434

    #2
    Originally posted by haaken675
    Hey guys. While swapping in my stainless steel brake and clutch lines, I ended up with two issues. The front passenger hard line was so corroded that the fitting stripped out and I couldn't actually get it off. Same thing happened with the clutch line. It looks like someone had previously removed them and likely stripped the nuts and used something like vice grips in order to get them tight enough.

    I found the part numbers for the hard lines on real oem and looks like a few places carry them. The pictures just show straight lines that being said. Do the lines come pre bent, or should I just go about making my own? I feel like if I have to bend them myself as is and purchase a small tube bender, I might as well just make them myself.
    Hi there. I stripped one of my rear-passenger ones (the one attached to the trailing arm). So I removed the whole hardline, measured it, went to Napa, and I got a universal line that was basically the same length (and literally the same thing as OEM). Bending it was cake, but it might be a little harder for you since your's is a front hardline.
    Good luck!
    "Time doesn't heal anything... It just teaches us how to live with the pain." - My Cracked Dashboard

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    • citizen_insane
      Wrencher
      • Jan 2013
      • 216

      #3
      Get Nicopp and bend your own. Super easy to work with.

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      • jeffnhiscars
        R3V OG
        • Jun 2011
        • 6010

        #4
        Originally posted by citizen_insane
        Get Nicopp and bend your own. Super easy to work with.
        you do need a double flare tool though.
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