found one

[ryanroo]

made a few brake lines the other day. not completely finished but here is a start. also luckily i had scrounged up brakelines enough that i think i will have all but 2 soft lines that i need. and they are all stainless braided. i had forgotten they were in my tool cart and found them over the weekend





Ryan

[Hetzer]

How do you make those nice circles and straight runs? Mine always look terrible. Functional but not pretty.

[ryanroo]

for the coils i use a piece of tubing of whatever size seems right. i think i used 2 inch OD for those, anyway i just clamp to the tubing and wrap away. as for the strait part, im not sure. i just use a tubing bender, and if that wont work i make bends around a piece of 1.5 inch tubing. as far as layout, i have done a few and learned, and i bend big tubing for a living so that helps. and a super secret of mine is teaching myself how to straiten the tubing when i mess up.
Ryan

[Hetzer]

I figured it was something like that. It also probably takes more patience than I've been able to muster thus far while doing it.

You do nice work Ryan.

[randyscycle]

Hetzer, pick up some of the polymer coated lines from NAPA. They will bend without a tubing bender and smoothly at that. They work really nice.

[ryanroo]

another method is to sleeve the tubing with that coiled wire stuff. that stuff helps hide any uglies, and makes the end result look good. the only downfall is that you have to reflare the tubing on every stick if you dont get the tubing with the coil on it.


I made some progress on my transfer case shifter this evening, but i forgot my camera so pics will have to wait till tomorrow
ryan

[Binford]

Hetzer, pick up some of the polymer coated lines from NAPA. They will bend without a tubing bender and smoothly at that. They work really nice.

And they're OD color too, if it's the same stuff Fisherman got from NAPA.

[Hetzer]

Thanks for the tip. I'll be re-working mine at some point here in the future.

It's hard to get motivated to get into the cold garage lately after being outside all day long. Can't wait for January.

[ryanroo]

pics of the shifter

low range pre paint


the mount on the tranny


overall from under


decided to paint the shifter OD that is in 2WD if i remember right


painted underneath shot


ryan

[randyscycle]

Nice trim little selector lever.......lookin' good!