Braided Lines And Stuff Fitted.

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So today against any sane regard for torn rib cartilage I fitted my braided lines to all 4 corners, my DBA 4000 rear rotors and RB24 pads.

Front was a breeze, the rear had couple niggles. I have a single carport so side room sucks arse. Couple times I lay down and had to : TYSON!? Came `ere eh? stick my left hand out and Stepson had to hoist me to my feet.

Rear rotor removal was no major hurdle. I hit the centre with a wire brush sand paper and Lanotec spray and a bit of persuasion with Big Augie the 5 lb club hammer and off they came. Drivers side had a couple cleat thingy`s on the threads, only 2 though so I flicked them off and it was all good.

Next thing, where the hose attaches to the steel line on the rear, there`s a plate that's apart of the line, you gotta drill the rivet off and remove. See pics. No major hassle really.

What had me shagged was the C clips Howard sent me. They are too small. Farkin. My normally has everythink! shop had nothing, it was 3pm wreckers are closed so it was REPCO and the kid gimme a couple E clips, the circlip ones. I packed the gap up with one each and got it too work. Howard is getting an Email on monday no 2 ways about it.

OEM rear pads and rotors were barely 25% gone despite 60,000 klms and many many wonderfull burnouts at the drags. Ahem, drags..

Is it betterer? Will be when I re-bleed it all, I ran outa time.

Ugh camera in car, pics to follow

[RHR]

Nice work. Braided lines are great. Youll get a heaps better pedal feel

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here`s a pic of the bracket you need to drill the rivet out of and reattach. The lil C clip goes on this new bracket also. None of this was rocket surgery, however if you`re not fully confident don`t piss around with brakes especially if you reside in South East Queensland, the life you save may be mine.

I got Bullpitt out to assist with one final brake bleed this morning figuring it would be a good idea to just go round one last time after driving it yesterday and parking over night. So, up on 4 stands, all wheels off, start at passenger rear and the dopey *beep* pumped the pedal while I had the bleeder cracked farkin.

I said to myself something or other, he said later " you said summin bout a hose "

Did I say PUMP IT UP, HOLD, or RELEASE???

Fair Dinkum eh.. So the reservoir looked like a shaken bottle of coke.

I`m about to put wheels on now. Bit disappointed its not really any better than before regarding feel. It might not be politically correct but I don`t really like ABS..

[Guest XR09]

If your by yourself Spin you can do the drip bleed method.

You will need about 3 - 4m or fish tank air hose to go over each bleeder and 4 small coke bottles. Put enough fluid in the bottom of the bottles to cover the ends of the air hoses. Am I making sense?

I put my car up on stands and just crack the nipples a bit. Give the brake one push. Open the lid on the master cylinder, retop it full and leave the lid off and go to bed. Next morning I tighten the nipples and presto easy peasy brake bleed.

Use Penrite sin or better for the big brakes. Just the lightness and feel in the pedal is worth it. And a 600F boiling point will save you having to bleed all the time. The fluid is what gives you the feel. The big trpuble with this is if the res. runs dry. but I have never had that happen...yet.

You really wont notice that much diff with the big brakes till you go play hard. (on the track of course) or have to replace the pads and rotors lol

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I have a self bleeder, I know a few bleeding tricks. I just prefer to do it the old fashioned way, all you need is someone with more than a dozen brain cells pumping the pedal farkin.

A good portion of my life has been spent around machinery and when I was very young I spent some time desilting dams with Chev Blitz`s. Some properties we`d rip brake lines off all the damned timein log and snag strewn long grass. Funny how even if you got them perfeck, Blitz brakes always need pumping. 30 years later I to this day, pump the brakes on anything I drive.

I went for a good drive just now after hosing the wheels and surrounding areas very well to see how it was going to be and to get rid of any brake fluid residue.

Its better I suppose and as stated above, after many applications its still quite consistent.

SO, with DBA 5000`s front DBA 4000 rear, braided lines, new pads and fresh Penrite SIN brake fluid that's the brakes done.

Car stops.