Eliminating the soft lines on the typical rear disc brake conversions??

[1976CamaroGuy]

I put one of those cadillac caliper disc brake conversions on the rear of my 71 camaro. These kits supply you with two short rubber lines with banjo fittings on one end for the calipers and a 3/8-24" female end to thread your stock hard line into.

I don't really like the rubber lines and since there are no moving parts on this section of the brake system I thought about bending my own 3/16" line and going from the junction block on the axle directly to the calipers.

Has anyone done this? I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work, just wanted to check

The only issue I can see is addressing the banjo fittings at the caliper....but a quick search I can get a 10mm banjo fitting with an -AN on it...then I can use an -An compression fitting on the 3/16" tube to mate to that.

[dontlifttoshift]

It's a floating caliper, you can't hardline it.

Even with non floating calipers, it's a bad plan, no you have to bleed brakes to do an axle seal or swap a rotor.

[1976CamaroGuy]

Ok, that's what I needed to know Thanks! I may just get some stainless braided lines to replace the rubber one's instead...thanks again

[Checkered Past]

Don't hard line them because it also makes difficult to change the brake pads ... must bleed the system everytime

[1976CamaroGuy]

Don't hard line them because it also makes difficult to change the brake pads ... must bleed the system everytime

I wasn't thinking about that lol...thanks for the heads up

[Skip Fix]

The factory 79-81 Trans Am 4WD used those same calipers and did hard line it but had a big loop to be able to move the caliper for service. the also used a brass block bolted to the caliper with a banjo and a flair fitting for the hardline. It is a pain and a flex line would work better. I used the flex lines on the 79 Camaro race car and those are the plain D154 metric calipers that have no E brake but you can do the same for the E brake calipers.

[badazz81z28]

I use a flex line on my rear disc, it’s better that way for caliper removal etc. like mentioned a floating caliper does move.