Man do I ever hate brake lines!

[DeepBlue68]

Working with brake lines is such a pain in the a**. I built all the brake lines for our Formula SAE car at school, and I don't want to do it again. I gave up on tubing benders for anything except 90 degree turns in one plane.

I'm gonna be doing the same thing as you pretty soon - building brake lines for my '68 Camaro with Baer brakes and a prop valve. I haven't even really looked into it so far, but I figured it wasn't gonna be easy. One thing that has always interested me is these brake line pliers from Eastwood: http://www.eastwoodco.com/shopping/p...&keyword=49074. They seem like they'd really help with bending those lines to fit, especially in tight areas.

Although I haven't done it personally, my suggestion would be to cut the premade rear line down by the frame, and put a coupler on it, and build the part up to the prop valve by yourself from scratch. You can buy SS brake line and fittings from any auto parts store. Also, don't forget to put those little spiral loops in the lines so that they won't snap when they flex from chassis flex, temperature, etc.