Since there was no way I was going to put dirty brake lines on my refished chassis, I opted for a preformed kit from Inlinebrakes.com. The replacement lines are stainless steel and look trick. I ordered their 68' conversion kit for a shortbed truck.
When I tried to lay the lines I found they sent me a longbed kit. The front to rear line was way too long. The rear differential lines were also different.
Here you can see the line goes past the connection
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| From Inlinetube 68' Conversion Lines |
In this photo you can see the lines don't bend forward to the t-block.
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| From Inlinetube 68' Conversion Lines |
It literally took weeks of back and forth emailing and returning of products to get all the issues worked out. Not all the problems where the fault of Inlinetube. My local autoparts gave me one wrong brake caliper. It was in the correct box but was the wrong product. It fit great but the lines didn't fit. By this time I had already painted it red! They allowed me to return the red caliper in exchange for a correct replacement. Overall it took a good 45 days to work out all the issues.
The corrected rear lines:
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| From Inlinetube 68' Conversion Lines |
Correct front-to-rear line. Crossmember was not complete in this photo
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| From Inlinetube 68' Conversion Lines |
Finally got the wheels back on
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| From Inlinetube 68' Conversion Lines |
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