The I'm-Learning-As-I-Go 1965 Valiant Post
Let down the back so I could get the front up higher...
Today was a great day to work on the car. Sun was obscured by clouds, no rain - and it stayed like that ALL FRIGGIN DAY. WOOT
So I went to work on the brake lines. I bought about 25 feet of 3/16 copper nickel brake line, thinking it would be enough. But because of my noobishness I did the lines. And then redid the lines. I wanted it fairly tidy and I had to figure out a good place to stick the Wilwood proportioning valve.
BTW... Getting the hard lines up around the frame rails and into the engine compartment and across the firewall is a B I T C H with the engine in the way... you guys make it look easy! And trying to figure out a good way to measure and bend the line is both a pain on and off the car. But on the car turned out to be relatively easier.
So pardon my amateurish line bendy techniques...
Not super crazy about how close the line gets to the UCA. Mental note to self, may need to make a bracket in the future, or at the very least come up with a better solution....
Front lines by the master...
Mounted the proportioning valve near the back end of the torsion bar...
Taped up the flex line ends, to keep out the Hawaii weather and the little critters that like to hang around my car...
But now the line I made to go from the master to the prop valve is too short. So I'm going to have to remake it.
Looks like I'm going to need more lines.
Let down the back so I could get the front up higher...
Today was a great day to work on the car. Sun was obscured by clouds, no rain - and it stayed like that ALL FRIGGIN DAY. WOOT
So I went to work on the brake lines. I bought about 25 feet of 3/16 copper nickel brake line, thinking it would be enough. But because of my noobishness I did the lines. And then redid the lines. I wanted it fairly tidy and I had to figure out a good place to stick the Wilwood proportioning valve.
BTW... Getting the hard lines up around the frame rails and into the engine compartment and across the firewall is a B I T C H with the engine in the way... you guys make it look easy! And trying to figure out a good way to measure and bend the line is both a pain on and off the car. But on the car turned out to be relatively easier.
So pardon my amateurish line bendy techniques...
Not super crazy about how close the line gets to the UCA. Mental note to self, may need to make a bracket in the future, or at the very least come up with a better solution....
Front lines by the master...
Mounted the proportioning valve near the back end of the torsion bar...
Taped up the flex line ends, to keep out the Hawaii weather and the little critters that like to hang around my car...
But now the line I made to go from the master to the prop valve is too short. So I'm going to have to remake it.
Looks like I'm going to need more lines.