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Good Afternoon,
I am installing an all new brake system in my '58. I am about to start running new brake lines to the front calipers and the rear end. I see brake lines with 2 or 3 loops in them as they leave the proportioning valve. I know they are to prevent line fatique but I'm looking for the typical diameter of the loops. I have a steel pipe that is 1.5 inches in diameter I am planning to use. Any thoughts?
TIA
I think that will work but it seems like they are closer in size to a soda can. Do you mean leaving the master cylinder going to the pro. valve?
Thanks for you response. My prop valve is bolted to the booster with the same bolts as the master cylinder. I will be puting the loops after the prop valve as the lines go to the brakes. I have seen the loops positioned vertically and/or horizontally. Which one makes more sense? TIA
I think you can put they the way they look best to you.
WRONG!
This is the wrong way
And you ask why, do you?
Air will get trapped at the top of each loop and you will never see them run this way.
They need to run up & down so the air can move up to the master.
I have told this fellow the same and I hope he will change them.
The reason for the loops between the body the master is bolted to and the frame is they both move in different directions.
Dave ----
Didnt the stock setup have a rubber section to provide flexibility at the firewall? I think I replicated the stock layout on mine including rubber flexible section. Just to provide another approach.
