Brake line help

[bigpaul]

I have been rebuilding the rear brakes on my 71. New drums, shoes, springs, wheel cylinders, etc. All parts came from NAPA. The new hose from the frame to the rear end has a T. The problem is that the T is made for the fitting of a 1/4" line and the wheel cylinder is 3/16". The original line was a 3/16" with the diferent fittings on each end. The local parts houses don't have such a line. I can't be the first with this problem, what are the rest of you doing?

[70cst]

Here is a bump for you ....

[Tim Christian]

I have always used Inline Tubes rubber and hard lines with no troubles.

[29od1]

When I redid my rear brakes, I just got new tubing from a parts store and used the old fittings and reflared the lines. Pretty easy to do and the parts store may have a flaring tool you can borrow.

Or as Tim suggested, just order new lines.

[midniteblues]

The outputs to the wheel clys should be 3/16" lines not 1/4".recheck with napa too see if they have a rubber hose with the correct output size. I to try too use the orignal fittings if they are not too boogered up.

[bigpaul]

My original rubber line is identical to the new NAPA part. The line from the T to the wheel cylinder had different size ends. It was also original equipment.

[Richard H.]

I've run into that, only because the 3/16 line fitting was metric that they sold me.

[midniteblues]

sounds like a reuse the fittings job too me. but you would have to do some reflareing.maybe a differnt t fitting with 3/16" outputs would help. most times I reuse the fittings and I allways like keep any I come across just because of problems like yours.what I do is take the old fitting and drill out the old line out of it using the rite size bit then sliding it on a screw driver shaft and run it over a wire wheel on a bench grinder to clean it up. so in short Ive never not been able to not make my own lines/fittings.I understand that when you pay for the rite stuff though it should fit period.If Im thinking rite though a differnt t should help