Rerouting rear brake lines

[SnackPack]

After my last trip to the hills, I had a little bit too much fun in the mud. It turns out I mangled up the hard brake line on my rear axle a little bit. Now I could reroute the line to the top of the axle tube, but I'd like to remove it from the axle tube completely... I can see why it's setup like this from the factory (drums didn't require a braided line, thus it was cheap to split one braided line to the hard line on the axle).

Now that I have discs, I don't see the need for a hard brake line on the axle itself -- I have to run sections of braided hose for the calipers anyway. I'm thinking of splitting the line under the bed and running a hard line to the frame rails. From there, run stainless braided hose to my rear calipers -- just like the front. Has anyone here done this and have pics? I have the ORD stainless braided kit, and it uses 25" of line for the front calipers. I haven't measured yet, but I'm assuming that length will also work for the rear.

 

[toomany]

No reason it wouldn't work. But you are over complicating things. Now instead of having one drop line on the back, you would have two to worry about. I could see if you were going to run cutting brakes on the rear the need for two lines (then you would need two separate lines from the valves back). I ran mine on the back side of the axle tube, it's somewhat protected that way.

Also, probably not an issue on your rig, but if you have alot of travel in the rear suspension of your truck...then the brake lines could be the limiting factor. Having a single drop in the center requires less length than two at the ends.

 

[toomany]

Oops, double post.

 

[SnackPack]

My hard line is on the back side of my axle tube as well. I also thought it would be well protected, however this last mudding trip has bent it up a bit. It's not like hitting a rock with it when backing up (which I wouldn't do on purpose), but deep rutted mud slop is a different issue.

I'm going to get some 56" rear springs and new shocks for the rear shortly. I'll evaluate the travel requirements then. In the meantime, I'm curious to see if anyone's done it.

 

[bronc3buster842001]

I done this on my old truck. Think I used the brackets off the front of another truck to hold the line. Sorry I dont have any pics of how I did it.