I was looking at Earl's Hyperfirm brake line kits for our cars. Summit and Jegs both sell them and Earl's is a division of Holley. Is it worth replacing the old rubber lines with the steel braided?

From what I can tell replacing them is easy and they claim you will stop faster. If anyone has replaced their stock lines with steel braided I'd like to know how easy it was to change. I just keep doing things on my car that I have never done trying to learn. Fortunately I have the service manuals from Helm that have all the detailed information in them to help.

 

WELL worth it!! The stock (even new) rubber lines will flex and bulge when hyd. pressure is applied, preventing the entire force of the pressure from being exerted into the calipers.
The stainless braided ones, do flex also, but so little as to counted as negligible. Almost 100% of the braking force is applied to the caliper resulting in faster response and better braking with reduced effort.

Earl's are highly recommended!! (stay away from the Russel's though, heard too many stories of them breaking!!)

My $0.02. hth

 

I just picked up a set of stainless brake lines, can't wait to put them on and try them out this spring.

woo hoo

Steve

 

I run the Earls S/S lines on my car and it made a noticeable difference, I also power bleed my brakes with the Phoenix V12 power bleeder, got ALL the air out, big difference. Highly recommend the Earls. Replacing the lines was easy, the Earls kit even comes with the center line over the Diff. Sometimes the E brake cable rubs on the stock rubber line and chafs it, and will eventually break. Recommend a good power bleed if you can with some good fluid, Valvoline synthetic is a good choice.

 

What is the Phoenix V12 power bleeder? I was just going to get a mity vac that is basically a vaccume pump that bleeds brakes.

 

Mity Vacs are ok, I had one didn't like it, the Phoenix V12 power bleeder is 100% better, but it costs around $100, toolwarehouse.com. The Phoenix power bleeder forces the fluid out from the master cylinder to the bleeder screw and and puts new fluid in at the same time, it uses a check valve at the bleeder screw with a hose connected to a bottle to catch the old brake fluid.