Plastic brake line?

[steveshawjr]

what do you thinks inside steel braided line ????? its the same stuff it works fine lots of guyys find it spongy because the done mount it right or have big gaps betyween mounting that let the line flex if mounted right its not spongy

[stockcar5]

running steel lines is easy...not a very good argument. if your not comfortable using a flare tool then every parts store in the world sells premade lines in various lengths and couplers. you can bend it by hand and you wont ever need to worry about reparing it at the track because it wont fail like plastic. if you get wrecked hard enough to ruin your steel brake line, put it on the trailer, your night is done anyway!

[Egoracing]

I have had to repair a steel brake line at the track when a rock hit it and pinched it and it ruptured, so yes you can have a leaking steel line at the track without ever getting wrecked heck I have had to fix them when we raced on asphalt! It easily takes about 1/3 the time to properly run nylon lines than steel and you do not need any special tools.

[stockcar5]

I have had to repair a steel brake line at the track when a rock hit it and pinched it and it ruptured

wow you managed to rupture a steel line that can hold 2000psi of pressure! i'm guessing either
A: your lying
B: you dont know how to run brake lines
C: you race in a rock quarry

and you do not need any special tools.

reread the second sentence of my post.

[Egoracing]

wow you managed to rupture a steel line that can hold 2000psi of pressure! i'm guessing either
A: your lying
B: you dont know how to run brake lines
C: you race in a rock quarry



reread the second sentence of my post.

Internal pressure capability of a line and the ability of a rock to nick it are two totaly different things, the nylon can handle 2000 psi also but again can be nicked.
As for the second line, you are not supposed to use flairing tool on brake lines you are suposed to use a double flairing tool to fit the ends that are made for it. The double tool uses a different angle (45 degrees when a regular flare tool is 37 degrees) and you can easily screw them up if you do not know what you are doing with them.

[stock car driver]

Internal pressure capability of a line and the ability of a rock to nick it are two totaly different things, the nylon can handle 2000 psi also but again can be nicked.
As for the second line, you are not supposed to use flairing tool on brake lines you are suposed to use a double flairing tool to fit the ends that are made for it. The double tool uses a different angle.

A double flaring tool is a flaring tool.

Who cares

[stockcar5]

As for the second line, you are not supposed to use flairing tool on brake lines you are suposed to use a double flairing tool to fit the ends that are made for it. The double tool uses a different angle (45 degrees when a regular flare tool is 37 degrees) and you can easily screw them up if you do not know what you are doing with them.

i assumed you knew i was talking about a double flare 45 degree tool for brakes..my bad.

as far as the double tool using a different angle than the single flare tool, that is wrong..they make double and single flare tools in both 37 and 45 degree. the 37 degree is the standard AN flare.

after all of this i can see why that make plastic brake line kits..for people like you.

[stock car driver]

after all of this i can see why that make plastic brake line kits..for people like you.

Thats awesome!! Luke I sent you a message on here about the chassis chad got from you. I think you need to click on your name to get it?

[Egoracing]

You answer questions like everyone knows what you are talking about, you repeatedly said flare tool and that is NOT correct and someone reading that didn't know better would go get one and use it. Do you have any idea how many different diameters and thicknesses there are on "standard" steel lines??? Didn't think so, get the wrong one and your double flares will be junk.
I guess people like me are the same reason that nylon is used in Indy and F-1 and on 99.9% of the dirt late models and modifieds, because we are intelligent enough to know how to run it without having any issues.

[stockcar5]

seems like 99.9% of people know that when i talk about a flare tool in a post about brake lines that i am refering to a brake flare tool. congratulations you are the .1% that didnt comprehend. just read the post slower next time, let it sink in.


p.s. like i said before if all else fails you can buy premade lines with proper double flares and nuts already done for you. this may be the route to go for someone like yourself.

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[amish119]

I have installed in on asphalt and dirt cars since the mid to late 90's. It takes about 1 minute to make an at the track repair in the line that would require a new steel line.

[MasterSbilt_Racer]

I have installed in on asphalt and dirt cars since the mid to late 90's. It takes about 1 minute to make an at the track repair in the line that would require a new steel line.

I have never repaired a steel line at the track.

[powerslide]

thanks to the bots for the bump from 2011