I thought this with my front brake lines until harder trails, I nearly got pulled off pritchett the first time because a lug on my tire somehow caught the hard brake line.
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I thought this with my front brake lines until harder trails, I nearly got pulled off pritchett the first time because a lug on my tire somehow caught the hard brake line.
Sounds like you need bigger tires
I dont know why your line is routed like that but you could carefully bend that line straight up and then route it along the frame rail
Yeah its routed really weirdly. The other side doesn't really look like that, it goes over the frame rail. I am worried that kink is going to leak if I try to bend it but maybe it's better that happens on the driveway instead of on a trail
I think you are 100% correct about the kink , get a new line and route it in a better way .
I’d remove the brake line bracket from the frame, then carefully straighten the first 1.5” or so, and finally bend the rest to sit on top of the frame.
I'll give er the ol college try, and prebent front kits are like 80$ so not the biggest deal if it splits
There looks like enough line that if it did break or split you could cut it, flare it, and reinstall. Not fun but doable.
I bought one of the small tube benders at HF and rented a flaring tool. Both tools sucked, but I was only out $10 and got the job done on my rear brake line.
Double flairs can suck to do properly , of course this line is kinda short to bring more fun to the table . Good thing you have the Chevy to go get another brake line......
I had my driver's tire catch my brake line coming down off of Cleveland Rock in the Holy Cross trail. Broke it wide open. That was before trailering. Drove it 40 minutes to Doug's house and he was able to flare it in short order and get me on my way. Flaring a stock line isn't impossible but it does suck.
I haven't fully dealt with it yet beyond moving them closer to the shock tower. My long term plan is to do on the front axle what we do on the rear axle with the midarm: run a single line down the upper to a block that goes to -3an connectors (then soft loops to the calipers).
I asked about it before, Blaine (as always) shared good thoughts
https://wranglertjforum.com/threads/how-are-you-routing-your-front-brake-lines.83424/#post-1684769
I asked about it before, Blaine (as always) shared good thoughts
As always!
Sounds like for me I might as well just get the stock routing back to how it should be and will be good enough there
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