Brake line tech help needed

[frankenyoter]

Inching closer to get Blue back on the trails…

Next hurdle is brake lines on the 94 Toyota pickup.

I’ve deleted the abs and everything is apart. I want to drop lines onto the upper link on the three link and run a hard line to the front axle and split it to each caliper.

I’ve got a couple options (I think) on soft lines from the calipers (sky lines and the parts from LugNut brake kit on the GM 60). This should already be sitting in the parts pile.

Does anyone have any advice on what soft lines to use at either end of the upper link? I need a splitter at the axle too. Hoping to source auto parts pieces for a quick and reusable part number.

If my thought process is off I’m open to that too. Trying to avoid having lines off the frame to the calipers to make it clean and reduce risk of trail damage.

 

[OnlyOneDR]

I did something similar on mine; I have a single stainless braided flex line from the frame to the front axle, it goes through a tee mounted on the housing tube then hard lines out to the Cs where I have another braided stainless line at each going to the caliper. I did not use a flex line to bridge the joint onto the link; that would mean running a hard line backwards to the pivot point, then securing a line on the link, then having a hose at each pivot. The axle does not move that much to warrant all that extra effort (and adding an additional hose to the list of potential failure points). I did re-configure where that front hard line stops at the frame so that the new flex line would have a clear (and protected) path to the axle, since I was starting from scratch like you are (I also deleted the ABS and had to change the master cylinder). While it is not using "parts store" common parts I did make all the flex lines the same (front and rear) so that a single spare on the truck can replace any of the six hoses on the truck.