Saturday, January 1, 2022

Fabricating park brake lines - 7 hours

 Well...Fabricating the park brake lines (lines that run from the park brake to the 90deg fittings) its a lot more difficult than one would think. Its just really tricky as the lines are so short, you must be precise in all your bends and cuts.


Today took a long time, but in my opinion it was well worth it. The fit is fantastic and looks pretty good. Figuring out the bend recipe was murder...I have so much scra/garbage bent tubing lol. I didn't write down the bend recipe for these as frankly I don't think anyone would; A - Need them, or B - be able to repeat it.  There were some tricky bends and some tight bends involved with these. I have to start some bends with the end of the tube on the end of the bender tool like this;

Or I have to make an immediate bend following another and I have to rotate the tube 90....slip the bend just far enough back and start the next bend.

After many many many attempts I finally was able to fabricate a left and right brake line. 


I am essentially done bending brake lines....It was so much much work but I am so pleased with the results and I have about 40' of tubing left over for future. I suppose I will give all the bending tools a good clean and light oil and I can now put them away in storage. Actually...there is quite a lot of tools that I can start thinking about putting into storage and free up some drawer and cupboard space.







 


 

 

 

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