Rear Brake Lines – 5 Hours

Considering it was the first day of spring, the unseasonal cold weather and snow meant that I could not roll the body buck outside. Luckily this still gives some access to the rear of the car and so I decided to run the rear brake lines.

First mounted the brackets inboard of the frame, these basically provide the junction between the flexible braded lines from the calipers to the hard lines. Connecting the Tee (two female, one male thread) into the driver's side bracket union meant that only two 60” brake lines were required.

The only decision was do I, or do I not use pigtails. The benefit of pigtails is to provide adjustment for any small variances and provide protection from vibration. Also it does provide additional brake line for maintenance, should a new flair need to be needed. (Hopefully I won’t get any leaks when I start to bleed the system)

I decided to run the passenger to driver’s side brake line across the main cross brace as this only needed a couple of small bends to wiggle around the roll bar mounts. Mounting the brackets internal to the frame provided simple access for the brake line from the tee to the master cylinder. Basically this line runs vertically down the driver’s side frame member to a 90 degree bend, mounting to the outside of the main chassis tube. This terminates in a union underneath the driver’s side foot box.

Cushion clamps were used to hold the brake lines in place.

To some extent procrastination has set in as there are multiple options to the final routing of the hard lines to the master cylinders, as to the eventual location of the reservoirs. It’s the Texas Cobra club annual meeting in San Marcos next weekend; this will be an ideal opportunity to see what others have done.