Front to back brake pipe replacement

Hi Erik!

It is possible (make sure you plusgas everything a week before though!), although I always recommend kunifer brake pipes as they are quite resilient to corrosion and you can buy a coil of it and fittings for very little money from your local brake specialist.

The flanging tool is the only part you might not be able to borrow, but they aren't expensive and you can always lend them out to friends etc!

If you have already got hold of the whole steel pipe pre-flanged then have fun! although it is always a good idea to renew those rear subframe bushes while you are under the car, and reapply the waxoyl!

miniman

I have a roll of the stuff, and a flanging tool, but I also bought one of the complete kits a while ago - the front to rear pipe is the only one I've not used so far...

The subframe bushes were done a couple of years ago, replaced with poly ones. I think they're still OK, they haven't got overly squished, so I think I'll leave them for now. The waxoyl though is a must-do.

erik.

It's been about 8 years but I did exactly this. We may have removed all of the mounting bolts for the subframe to get a little more room to work. We didn't remove the subframe.

The brake pipe was steel. I had bent it to shape a couple of years before and didn't use it. It was copied directly from an original front to back brake pipe. When a friend of mine needed it I gave it to him and helped install it.

Cheers,

Kelley

I did mine a few weeks ago, it's possible providing you make your own pipe up and fit the connections after manouvering the pipe between the backpanel and subframe, prepare for arm ache while using the flaring tool though.

HTH Jim

That's the part I had forgotten over the years. Spot on. Sore arm...

Kelley