I need help with this badly.

ok here's my problem.

I put a 4th gen rear into my car (85TA), now , the rear is '95 and the caliper hoses need metric style fitting with the inverted double flare

the junction block where the lines split to go to each wheel needs the normal double flare

I bought the double flaring kit , made the lines , bolted them in and then realized they leak like a mother****er at the caliper hoses since I put two standard flares on them instead of having one standard and one metric.

I realize I can buy a metric double flaring kit , but during the process I managed to break all the adapters in mine so I'm slightly pissed at the poor quality of it and I bet I would break the metric ones as well , damn cheap *** tools , I managed to do a few good flares but of course they were the wrong kind so that's why it leaked , LOL , so as I was practicing I managed to break them... anyway...

any place online that can make me a custom length brake line with two different flares and fittings ?

what would you guys recommend doing ? just buy the metric kit and hope it doesn't break like the standard one did ? (I can buy the lines at autozone with standard flares so one end will be all set , then I just cut the other end off and I could make it into a metric flare I guess.

 

I just did this.... I bought a section of tubing with the metric flares on it, cut it to the size I needed, then put the normal 45 degree flare on it for the juntion block. So far I havent had any leaks, but I really dont trust them too much. I went ahead and got a set of used 4th gen lines just to be safe. I reccomend you do the same, thats really the only way you're going to get the routing exactly right, and you will have the proper flares on either end. Try going to a junkyard, or even www.car-part.com. Hope this helps.

Scott

 

careful on posting links to places , these mod ***** like to ban people for that (they banned me for posting a link last week , LOL). But thank you for the advice and I appreciate the link too , I guess used set of lines is probably the best bet at this point , I've already wasted close to $150 on the brake lines alone and I didn't get anywhere (I even bought 91-92 brake lines only to find out they are too short, lol). It's the last thing keeping me from driving my car again and I was getting desperate :-)

thanks again and if anybody else has an idea/suggestion I'll be glad to read it.

 

I hear ya man. I finally hooked my brakes up a couple weeks ago and was able to drive it around. Tonight I'll be putting on the 4th gen lines I bought, so now I'll actually be able to drive it other places than around the block without worrying that my brakes are going to fail! Woot!

 

stupid question but I guess you got them at a junkyard right ?

I doubt there are any where I live with 4thgens & rear disc brakes , but I guess it can't hurt to check.

good luck with your car :-) lol, I'm about || this close to jbwelding mine to the caliper hoses , LOL :-D J/K

 

I bought them off of a guy from www.camaroz28.com. You may be able to find some over there, or even try posting a "Want" ad in the thridgen.org classifieds.

 

You can buy new lines from http://www.classictube.com - they sell every brake line for an f-body, and you can even get them in stainless steel! I'm thinking of buying the s/s kit for my rear axle.

When I snapped a line off at the rear caliper, I replaced it with a pre-flared tube, and bent the tube to match what I needed. Pep boys had a rack in the back with all kinds of pre-flared tubing... the section I bought had blue-colored fittings, marked as being for "Foreign/Import" cars. Apparently Pep Boys didn't realize that metric fittings were used on GM since '84!