[Trypt]

Had an awesome morning wheeling this morning. ended pretty ghey with a cracked rear brakeline (the one that runs along the top of the diff.

Got towed back to the nearest mechanic. Now if i get them to fix it they will go and buy new parts and charge a gazillion dollars in labour.
Mate has a few old NT 1L will the lines off these fit my WT 1.3. its a 96 if that means anything

[SierraDan]

Brake line would cost a bit of pocket money to fix at a good brake shop.

[BlueSuzy]

Put some vice grips on the rear lines, rebleed the system and drive sensibly home. (driven 500k like this, no option)

Fit a lux solid axle front or get a new one made up

[Trypt]

BlueSuzy wrote:

Put some vice grips on the rear lines, rebleed the system and drive sensibly home. (driven 500k like this, no option)

Fit a lux solid axle front or get a new one made up

THanks for the quick responses. will any year model solid axle lux front fit?

[Jackson]

Trypt wrote:

Mate has a few old NT 1L will the lines off these fit my WT 1.3. its a 96 if that means anything

Yeah, if you re-bend some sections it ends up just long enough.

[Gwagensteve]

A brake place should charge peanuts to do this. Don't take them the car, take them the line and ask them to make a new one. They'll reuse your old flare nuts. Materials would be like $10 and 20 minutes labour.

[Trypt]

Thanks Steve. Any point in getting heavier pipe. ie is this is common problem?

[Gwagensteve]

You won't be able to get heavier pipe- size is dictated by the flare nut. How did it crack? It's not that common a problem.

Steve.

[Trypt]

Not really sure how it happened. made it up the climb and was on the last part of the decent then lost all brakes. kinked the the line before the crack and that work for a little while.

[Scales]

+10000000 to what steve said about just taking the line to the shop.

its like the most basic job in the world for those blokes. may seem like the end of the world and needing to get a replacement part and $$$$. But fabbing one up takes stuff all, the material is cheap as chips as well. I used to do much harder runs on aircraft using stainless steel lines, and that was still piss easy.

[BlueSuzy]

Oh the hardline. Yeah get a new one made up in a shop.

[Trypt]

Ok thanks for all the helP guys

[sideways]

Buy the little bender thing and about 20m of hardline and make one yourself.

I made some up for a Series 2 Land Rover once, just the lines that go from the master cylinder down to the chassis. I think I made 4 before I made one that fitted.

[Gwagensteve]

I find it very difficult to get good flares on brake hard line with the run of the mill double flare tool everyone has. They sometimes work.... but often not, so I'm happy to get my flares done at a shop.

Steve.

[KEENSY85]

Just do as Steve said or go to the wrecker and get one to get u home, and how did it crack shure u didn't have it floating around loose on to the top of the diff, and and tore it

[Trypt]

nah its only a really tiny crack. about 1.5mm long on the passenger side of the pumpkin. I did notice that the harline seems to be to long so its got a big loop on it.