[BigRay]

After recently installing my Jimnybits extended brake lines I have found that two lines continuously leak. The rear one leaks from the diff connection and the driver side front leaks from the chassis connection. The fluid leaks from the threads of the joints. All joints are tight enough and seated properly but still leak, the master cylinder keeps emptying...

Anyone else have this problem or know how to fix it? Told Jimnybits but they weren't very much help..

About to buy some factory lines on ebay from a 2012 Jimny. Will they be long enough for my Jimnybits 2" lift with rear shock re-locators?

Thanks,
Ray

[Paulw]

I had a similar problem with the front PS hose on the body side( it was a very slow leak), I just undid the connection, cleaned and refitted it ( over tightened it slightly) and never had any more problems.

[Jezza86]

the jimny fittings are quite soft and arn't great on forming a seal if theyve been undone toomany times. i replaced my fittings on the rear and after that she was good as gold.
after that i also bought a flair nut spanner to stop rooting the nuts because they are so soft and easy to round off.

[Jezza86]

mine had been undone more then 10 times that i know off.

[BigRay]

Ah yes I see, I've only ever removed the lines once which was to replace them for the Jimnybits ones. I was thinking about thread sealant but nothing is better than a solid connection.

So new solid brake lines with new Jimnybits lines or will stock lines be ok with the lift and new solid lines?

Ray

[atari4x4]

get some made up the same length as the jimnybits one, but ADR compliant... any DECENT brake shop will be able to do this for you.

[BigRay]

That's a good idea atari

Anyone had any issues with stock lines and a 2" lift?

[pete_79]

We still have stock lines with 2" lift.
No worries at full drop on the rears, front is pretty tight but not stretched.

Going to change for slightly extended braided lines from brake shop soon enough, but more to help get a better feel in the pedal then concerns about the length of the lines.

[Jezza86]

Recomend the spring on the outside of the line. Protects them from the panhard mounts

[BigRay]

Sounds good Pete!

Will do!! Noticed that when installing them and was originally going to wrap the lines in fuel hose but that would make them too stiff

Where did you get your new fittings from?

[BigRay]

Was also reading through some of your posts a few days ago and noticed you had an OME lift in the past. Are the OME lifts expensive? I've been looking at JB 50mm, Tough dog 40mm and OME 40mm, dunno which way to go.. My car is also sitting on a set of brand new 215/75/15 BFG KM2s at the moment. Wanting a bullbar in the near future too.

[Jezza86]

I sold my ome 40mm lift for 100 bucks. It had 7000k on it. I caught up with the bloke the last week and he told me thd shocks were all stuffed and he had ordered 4 new shocks.

I m pretty sure he wont be pleased when he finds that they wernt stuffed. Ome shocks font have much bound or rebound dampening compared to stock shocks even. IMO if they were tighter and the coils were wound a bit tighter so they located properly and didnt rattl and be noisy I wouldnt have gone to the jb lift.

If I was doing it all over again, 50mm jb springs, es1000 rears and es3000 fronts.

[BigRay]

Ah ok well I'll cross OME off the list then. I'm leaning towards a JB 50mm lift with split poly castor bushes but would like to buy locally if possible. Do you know much about the Tough Dog 40mm lifts?

[Jezza86]

I get that. Try to keep my money in au when I can too.
Monley steared me off the 80mm td when I was looking fo a 3" kis saying his springs were too firm.
dobinsons and king springs ive heard are pretty good.

[shep]

I had trouble with a rear brake line on my jimny. The car only had 600km on the clock and I had only undone it once using a proper flare nut spanner. I ended up cutting the hard line and making a new hard line with new fittings. Even though I only have a cheap double flare tool and used fittings from repco I managed to make a better hard line then suzuki.

[BigRay]

I made up my mind and will be getting a JB 50mm lift with LHD springs with castor correction bushes

If going back to stock lines doesn't help I think I might do what you did Shep.

[Jezza86]

if you can get away without using the castor correction bushes, do it.

[BigRay]

Yeah was going to leave them but I recently bought and installed a full set of the Jimnybits split poly bushes and realised I can get split poly castor bushes too, so nice and easy to remove and install