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Fix to a rubbing brake line?


Insanejughead

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Hey all, I'm really curious on what some of you have done to stop your flexible brake lines from rubbing your dropped I-beams up front on your rangers?

I dropped mine in April last year and in Dec '08 I swapped out my DJM beams for some Belltechs. Lately I've had my brakes become intermittent on me and I finally found out why.

My brake lines are being slowly wore down to nothing from them rubbing the beam on bumps and turns. I replaced them last night, but I don't want to have to do this again in a year...



Any help on this safety issue would be great!
 


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Some folks gets heavy duty rubber air hose tubing with a I.D. slightly bigger than the O.D. of their brake line. Then, they splits the air hose tubing like a hot dog bun & forces it over the brake line. Then, they tie-wraps it real good every inch or so to pull it together around the brake line. Then, they drives it like that for 15-20 years. Hope that helps ya..:icon_hornsup:
 

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That actually sounds like a good idea.
 

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Hmm... that is a good thing to try. I just got new lines, so I'll give it a go.



I also looked last night, I may be able to get my tubing bender in there just right to allow myself to tweak the tubing a bit for more clearance around the coil spring.
 

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Yep, it worked good on the helicopter fuel, brake, & transmission lines, but it just didn't hold up to AK-47 rounds :icon_rofl: (aarrgghh-another war story)
 

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