anyone bought a brake line kit before?
 

just wondering if anyone has bought brake line kits for their trucks or just bent their own lines. I have no problems doing my own but if buying the tools to do it right matches the price of a kit might as well save time. I also can't tell when I look at kits online if their for the whole truck or just the front lines. any advice? thanks

Re: anyone bought a brake line kit before?
 

I ordered the stainless kit from brothers for a disk conversion. Real nice kit and price was decent. You do even better if you wait for a holiday sale. Think the whole kit (front-rear) in stainless was $120 with holiday sale.

Re: anyone bought a brake line kit before?
 

There is a guy on ebay who made a rear and a front to rear line in stainless....think he was around $40 a line shipped. I can get his contact info if anyone wants it.

Re: anyone bought a brake line kit before?
 

any idea if the lines for the rear need to be disc specific or are they the same for both drum and disc? thanks

Re: anyone bought a brake line kit before?
 

The kit brothers has is made for a drum truck going to disk front end. You will want to get lines specific for your application.

Brothers has drum/drum disk/drum kits

Re: anyone bought a brake line kit before?
 

but no disk/disk that I've seen

Re: anyone bought a brake line kit before?
 

I'm not sure on that. I used inlinetube from ebay (he has a store there) for my stainless steel brake cables and two lines for the fleetside. Great products. I'm sure he can make what you need. The brake lines were around $40 each shipped and the pair of stainless steel cables was $120 shipped

Re: anyone bought a brake line kit before?
 

I have used inline tube on all my trucks, they have nice fitting pre bent line kits.

Re: anyone bought a brake line kit before?
 

Inline tube for me

Re: anyone bought a brake line kit before?
 

I just called Inline and they took a pass on my truck refreshing but flustrating

Re: anyone bought a brake line kit before?
 

sorry wrong truck section it for my 59 C-60

Re: anyone bought a brake line kit before?
 

The factory routing is unnecessarily long and I believe most (all?) the kits run the rear line under the engine. If you don't care about originality I see no reason to add complexity here.

I was able to do mine with one 25' roll of copper nickle line since I ran the rear line on the left side of the truck. If you cross it over it's about 30" too short. It was about $38 for the line, tube nuts and clips and all the bends can be done very fast with no tools if you use the copper nickle line. That's one, cheap easy way to do it...

Re: anyone bought a brake line kit before?
 

I bought Inline Tube some 15 years ago and never got it the rear to line up properly, and the fronts needed some extra bends (minor). Keep in mind you may need to do some of your own bends to make it all line up. The kit was made for a disk/drum set up on my '65, but things just didn't work right from the front cross member back. I'll be taking another crack at it in the not to distant future though as I'm back at it.

Re: anyone bought a brake line kit before?
 

I bought a kit, but it didn't line up, maybe because of my long bed? had to return it and the shipping was to expensive, so I just bent my own, just make sure you get a good double flare tool that's rated for steel,