Outer Limits 4x4 Board

I used lux ones.. straight swap, and plenty long enough!!

As some others have said, get new lines made to suit. Mine cost about $80 all up for 100mm longer lines all round.

I got mine done at ABS - most ABS stores have the stuff to make any line you need - Its cheap so why risk/bother doing it any other way?

Cheers,

Pez

BlueSuzy wrote:$35 a line in penrith...100mm longer

where abouts did you get them from?

CairnsZook wrote:Cheapest I could find in Launceston was $44 per
a little more than you blokes up North. I put that down to the "Tasmanian factor"

Does that mean they should have been $22
Peter.

GRPABT1 wrote:

wideaz wrote:just paid 300 dollars for snake racing braided lines
they look good but damn thats expensive.

around 6 inchs longer

Hahahaha you got touched

Snake are RIP OFFS! Those lines will be Calmini ones you could have got cheaper of a bunch of other suppliers

No they wont be calmini. They'll be made here, pressure tested and stamped with an ADR number.
And once you go for a ride in a sierra with decent brakes you wont want to go back.
If you have a lot of rubber hose you'll have a spongy brake pedal. Only way you wouldn't would be if your booster had no grunt- which would still suck. Even braided lines will pulse if they're long enough (mine are 1200 long)

Joining two flex lines together is hokey.

Anyone fitting wrecking yard brake lines really wants a good slap. The difference between the banjo playing, mouth breathing sister humping hillbilly solutions and just getting the right thing wouldn't even amount to a carton of discounted domestic beer. Surely safe breakings worth a bit more?

GRPABT1 wrote:

wideaz wrote:just paid 300 dollars for snake racing braided lines
they look good but damn thats expensive.

around 6 inchs longer

Hahahaha you got touched

Snake are RIP OFFS! Those lines will be Calmini ones you could have got cheaper of a bunch of other suppliers

No they wont be calmini. They'll be made here, pressure tested and stamped with an ADR number.
And once you go for a ride in a sierra with decent brakes you wont want to go back.
If you have a lot of rubber hose you'll have a spongy brake pedal. Only way you wouldn't would be if your booster had no grunt- which would still suck. Even braided lines will pulse if they're long enough (mine are 1200 long)

Joining two flex lines together is hokey.

Anyone fitting wrecking yard brake lines really wants a good slap. The difference between the banjo playing, mouth breathing, sister humping hillbilly solutions and just getting the right thing wouldn't even amount to a carton of discounted domestic beer. Surely safe breakings worth a bit more? If you can afford the mods to need the longer break lines, but the not the lines, you should question your priorities.

The snake website says they are DOT approved not ADR approved, and we both know snake racing have a habit of buying calmini gear adding 200% mark up or more then selling it back to the public.

GRPABT1 wrote:The snake website says they are DOT approved not ADR approved, and we both know snake racing have a habit of buying calmini gear adding 200% mark up or more then selling it back to the public.

Bollocks. If youre buying a complete kit from Calmini, it would have their lines in it.
Ryan has his own machine there- makes his own adr aproved lines. There not calmini lines. All his lines have blue ends from memory.
If you think there's 200% markup anywhere in the 4wd industry your sadly mistaken,

What is the justification in the bagging people get for useing second hand flexiable brake lines .. ?
When you buy a second hand car .. do you race out and replace all your brake lines with new ones ?

No, you don't, but when you buy a complete, running car intended for the road, the general condition of it is evident and at some stage the car will be checked for safety before it's transferred or registered.

Pulling the lines off some wreck in a yard deserves a bagging- you don't know the history of the car, you don't know how long it's been in the yard, you don't know if battery acid or goodness knows shat else has been dripping on the lines, how long they've been in the sun, had wasps nesting in them, you don't know the subframe wasn't yanked out by some guy with a rope around the brake lines....

Do I need to go on?

Wreckers are not permitted to sell 2nd had brake lines. Isn't that enough?

Steve.

wideaz wrote:just paid 300 dollars for snake racing braided lines
they look good but damn thats expensive.

....and that's the "Karma Factor" at work

Gwagensteve wrote:No, you don't, but when you buy a complete, running car intended for the road, the general condition of it is evident and at some stage the car will be checked for safety before it's transferred or registered.

Pulling the lines off some wreck in a yard deserves a bagging- you don't know the history of the car, you don't know how long it's been in the yard, you don't know if battery acid or goodness knows shat else has been dripping on the lines, how long they've been in the sun, had wasps nesting in them, you don't know the subframe wasn't yanked out by some guy with a rope around the brake lines....

Do I need to go on?

Wreckers are not permitted to sell 2nd had brake lines. Isn't that enough?

Steve.

Yet the avergae shade tree mechanic is allowed to fit them (new lines) .... but legally not supposed to change a tap washer ...

Does not make alot of sense to me.

That's a different subject altogether.

Steve.

love_mud wrote:What is the justification in the bagging people get for useing second hand flexiable brake lines .. ?
When you buy a second hand car .. do you race out and replace all your brake lines with new ones ?

thankyou. i was not going to jump on this bandwagon but hell, there is some crap out there about brake lines. i agree with you love_mud and i i'm sure if anyone was going to fit second hand lines from another vehicle they will have a closer inspection than a car that gets the ok for a rego check. However i wouldn't buy brake hoses from wrecker purely because the cost difference between the wreckers and new is not enough to worry about. BUT if you, like me have done a couple of conversions and you have a vitara front cut or a left over swift and they cost you nothing, well go your hardest. and on the braided bit... are there any cars on the market that have shorter brake hoses than a sierra? on this theory the sierra should have better brake feel than most other cars, can anyone tell me they can feel the rubber hoses on a vitara bulge more than a stock sierra? i call bs on this one

Liam wrote:

GRPABT1 wrote:The snake website says they are DOT approved not ADR approved, and we both know snake racing have a habit of buying calmini gear adding 200% mark up or more then selling it back to the public.

Bollocks. If youre buying a complete kit from Calmini, it would have their lines in it.
Ryan has his own machine there- makes his own adr aproved lines. There not calmini lines. All his lines have blue ends from memory.
If you think there's 200% markup anywhere in the 4wd industry your sadly mistaken,

Well I stand corrected then I didn't know he made his own, but the site does say DOT approved. And I wonder if you have compared some of your own prices to Snakes even beecause you are alot cheaper alot of the tiime and even then I can still get the stuff they sell which they import from the US a hell of alot cheaper still from Locktup.