New Stainless Steel Braided Brake Lines

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Having nearly 30 year old brake lines on a truck is dangerous and makes for some spongy brakes. OEM rubber lines came with some fade from the factory as its inherent with all rubber lines. The advent of Braided Stainless technology has made it so your brake lines wont deform/fade under pressure and with the internal PTFE (Teflon) liners they last longer than you or I. Luckily I have access to the proper tooling, fittings and test equipment to make these lines.

Decided to fix our 4x4 V6 Truck this weekend. Here is how we started with all stock minus the Gen2 Moni calipers.




Luckily I dont live in the rust belt, so these came off pretty easily. Only one or two put up a fight.




Some of you may not know this but the 4x4 Max uses 2 lines on each front wheel. Made each line, then pressure tested to over 3,000psi to exceed DOT spec. All passed.




Two new lines for the front Passenger vs the two old lines.




All plumbed up and installed on the fronts. Added new retainers as well.




Tackled the rear axle next. Fabricated them about an inch longer to make sure I had additional room for flex. Quite a bit faster to do than the fronts.








Wrapped it all back up, flushed out the old brake fluid, bled the system and took her out for a stroll. Brakes feel much better and firmer. I get greater feedback from the pedal and I also don't feel like i have to press as far, or as hard to get the brakes to start biting.

For how inexpensive an upgrade this was its worth every penny. Sure, we all want to go faster, but do we think about how much faster we need to stop our vehicles? Also if any of us have swapped out the factory wheels and tires for bigger ones, your brakes now have to work harder and your truck takes longer to stop due to that added sprung weight.

Anyways great upgrade all around.