6BangBronk
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- Joined
- Jul 15, 2005
- Location
- Durham
Had a rubber brake line go out on me on the way home yesterday so I took it slow to Advanced to pick one up. Well, they no longer carry brake lines for a '76 F100. 
So I took my time on home and raided one from a parts van.
The van was a '96 and I couldn't get to the correct side I needed so I took the other side off to see if I could make it work. I haven't paid much attention to them but I see that the passenger side is different than the drivers side and even different than my '76. But with a grinder, I easily cut it down to work just fine.
Talking about the square head on the caliper end of a brake hose...
My question is, why so many different brake lines out there? Why aren't they cut so that they match from side to side at least per vehicle? All the rest of my projects have been converted to 3/4 ton so they are a different animal as well.
But the banjo bolt and copper washers are all the exact same and you can take a grinder to make anyone of them work for any vehicle...
If anybody can tell me why Ford does such a stupid thing, I'd like to know. And is Toyota and Chevy and Jeeps the same way? Seems like it would have cut the cost of brake line production in half to have them the same? There's absolutely no force trying to twist them but they are wedged in like no end. The banjo bolt compresses the copper washers and they go nowhere.
If I really needed I probably could have asked the guy at Advanced for ANY brake line he had if I had a grinder on me...
So I took my time on home and raided one from a parts van.The van was a '96 and I couldn't get to the correct side I needed so I took the other side off to see if I could make it work. I haven't paid much attention to them but I see that the passenger side is different than the drivers side and even different than my '76. But with a grinder, I easily cut it down to work just fine.
Talking about the square head on the caliper end of a brake hose...
My question is, why so many different brake lines out there? Why aren't they cut so that they match from side to side at least per vehicle? All the rest of my projects have been converted to 3/4 ton so they are a different animal as well.
But the banjo bolt and copper washers are all the exact same and you can take a grinder to make anyone of them work for any vehicle...
If anybody can tell me why Ford does such a stupid thing, I'd like to know. And is Toyota and Chevy and Jeeps the same way? Seems like it would have cut the cost of brake line production in half to have them the same? There's absolutely no force trying to twist them but they are wedged in like no end. The banjo bolt compresses the copper washers and they go nowhere.
If I really needed I probably could have asked the guy at Advanced for ANY brake line he had if I had a grinder on me...
