STUCK UP on custom front brake line, what to do???

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Want to order front & rear hose in bright organe and golden fittings with hard tube master cylinder extentions and a couple tab mounts along their runs. Spiegler only makes all hose lines but no hard tube ends options so please narrow my seaching down if anyone ears up on this now.
 
Re: custom brake quick advise & pointers please

hobot said:
Want to order front & rear hose in bright organe and golden fittings with hard tube master cylinder extentions and a couple tab mounts along their runs. Spiegler only makes all hose lines but no hard tube ends options so please narrow my seaching down if anyone ears up on this now.
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Try:
http://www.fittingsandadapters.com/

Slick
 
Re: custom brake quick advise & pointers please

Ah poo Kurt that's DIY supply and had enough of that delay so want 'off the shelf' store bought for Peel to get on with so many other her loose ends.
 
help SHOW STOPPER custom brake hang up

Ran into a show stopper ordering custom form Coremoto as they can not/will not fit a 3JIC 3/8" UNF male fitting on caliper end of hose only their mordern sizes and will not ship a partial kit for a DIY'r to finish. I do not want/will not change the Lockheed caliper with its 8-9" stand pipe but don't know my options to go further. I could order a front hose extra long to slice off the modern fitting but then stuck on how to adapt a male end on hose or a modern end on Norton stand pipe. Ugh.
What should of taken a few minutes ordering wasted another days delay with no end is sight yet, so hope someone can rescue me & Peel again. Would JBW fix it?
 
Re: help SHOW STOPPER custom brake hang up

hobot said:
Ran into a show stopper ordering custom form Coremoto as they can not/will not fit a 3JIC 3/8" UNF male fitting on caliper end of hose only their mordern sizes and will not ship a partial kit for a DIY'r to finish.
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Are you looking to convert/adapt the 37'JIC steel line to 45' as used on most of the aftermarket hoses? If so, I used a 3/8-24 Inverted Union such as http://www.mscdirect.com/product/detail ... PLA+-+Test threaded onto the steel line, into which you insert a JIC 3/8-24 X AN-3 adapter http://www.summitracing.com/parts/ear-5 ... fgod2joA7w. These come in pairs, so the other goes into your stock-threaded master cylinder with a washer to seal to the M/C body. Once you have these, any AN-3 line will bolt right in.

Now, before you run out and order them and call me a liar when the wrong ones show up on your doorstep, wait until I can get home to verify that's exactly what I did! I kept all the original packaging from said items.

hobot said:
Would JBW fix it?
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No, but it might be fun to try.
 
Hobot,

I took my old hoses to a friend who used to own a hydraulic shop and he made me up all new lines and even reused the plastic spiral wrap. Those fittings must be available if he was able to do it.

Pete
 
STUCK UP on custom front brake line, what to do???


Nate, Pete and private lurker Frank have upped my mood with possible solutions. Very glad to see this adapter exists. If I can't get someone equipped to make up a hose with male Brit Iron fitting then adulator is Plan B. Peel's stand pipe is an 850 rear brake tube I filled with low melt metal so reaches to top of slider and will be fixed to slider so stable even if extra fitting mass, if I have to. Peel forks have RGM fork brace so its clamp bolts are ready made mount point in right place so don't have to adapt mount on smooth wall slider.
 
hobot said:
STUCK UP on custom front brake line, what to do???


Nate, Pete and private lurker Frank have upped my mood with possible solutions. Very glad to see this adapter exists. If I can't get someone equipped to make up a hose with male Brit Iron fitting then adulator is Plan B. Peel's stand pipe is an 850 rear brake tube I filled with low melt metal so reaches to top of slider and will be fixed to slider so stable even if extra fitting mass, if I have to. Peel forks have RGM fork brace so its clamp bolts are ready made mount point in right place so don't have to adapt mount on smooth wall slider.
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You can make your own from this http://www.autozone.com/brakes-and-trac ... 074_90075/ if you have access to an SAE flare kit in 3/16". Then, you merely add the two adapters http://www.mscdirect.com/product/detail ... PLA+-+Test
and http://www.summitracing.com/parts/ear-5 ... fgod2joA7w together on top, and you're off and running with AN 45' SS flex lines.

Nathan
 
When I had to replace the rear hard line from the master cyl. to the pressure switch on my '75 MKIII it had a bubble flare on it, not a regular double flare. I don't recall what the front had, might be something to watch out for.

Pete
 
Deets55 said:
When I had to replace the rear hard line from the master cyl. to the pressure switch on my '75 MKIII it had a bubble flare on it, not a regular double flare. I don't recall what the front had, might be something to watch out for.

Pete
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Same thing as the rear line. You can create the same with some styles of double-flare tool by not driving the flare all the way down, but you're better off buying the line already with the proper end(http://www.autozone.com/brakes-and-trac ... 074_90075/), then flaring the other with the more conventional double flare to fit into the brass adapter.
 
Roadsmarts thanx for custom tube source to ease Peel's rear mudguard construction/fitting. Need thin hard tube to cross back of frame I can bend to tuck in slightly forward of down tubes so a flat plate of lexan or Alu can hug frame and only need a hose to run along-below swingarm to brake. Hope they can advise on brake switch banjo fitting or in tube-hose junction.
 
Ugh called classictube to find they don't make a steel tube with a banyo on one end only hoses so on to plan C.3b.
 
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