Stainless brake line kit/set

[Cumminsandy]

Hello all, noob to this site. I own a 1990 w250. So I have had my sweet ride for over 5years now and love it...other than the brakes. 5 years ago I had the rear brakes redone by a shop. They also did the brake master. Well, the brake master started leaking again. This time, I am doing it so I know it's all correct. So I replaced the brake master, vacuum pump, brake booster, front pads, rear shoes, wheel cylinders, drums, adjusters, adjuster spring and mechanism, rear bearings, seals, and brake spring kit . So then upon tightening the old lines into the new cylinders, the line twisted and kinked and essentially broke. So now I am just going to upgrade the entire system and do a stainless brake line kit/set. Does anyone know where I can find a pre bent stainless kit that I can just install?? I noticed that the leaking master cylinder rotted the front lines out also. So now, I am just going to replace every line on the truck and be done with it for a while. Also, can I just bypass the rwal unit in the rear driver frame rail.. I've heard that they give a lot of guys problems. After getting the brakes in and battling them, this straw broke this camels back and I'm pretty frustrated about how badly the brake lines are beat.

[PToombs]

Hi, welcome to the site! Yes, you can bypass the ABS valve in the rear, a very good brake mod for most people. Behind the glovebox is the ABS brain, unplug that too, it's a black box.
Rebuilt masters are crappy most of the time, there's been lots of threads on here about it. Leaks externally, don't work, won't bleed, seen a bunch of it.
Don't know about stainless kits, sorry!

[mknittle]

The "kits" are too expensive for what you get I am piecing the parts together out of parts from Summit racing.
http://www.summitracing.com/search?Sort ... ake%20hose

It takes a little adapting but costs about half the price of kits.

one more link.
http://www.dieseltruckresource.com/dev/ ... p?t=150248

and how I did mine ,So far (post221)
http://www.dieseltruckresource.com/dev/ ... 71p15.html

[lz69]

I have a stainless braid line kit from egr brakes on mine. Wouldn't recommend buying from them though, shipped them a month after they said they would and the three front lines(4x4) required a bit of work to fit.

First the hole in the center line is not big enough to clear the shoulder on the axle vent bolt so I had to grind the shoulder down. Secondly I had to fab up 2 L-brackets like the ones posted in the link.

Not a big issue but when you spend what they charge they should be a bolt on part with all the proper brackets.

[mknittle]

That is the reason I rarely buy kits. I end up modifying most of it.