my 68 cuda engine compartment

mopardude318 said

thank you! i am going to TRY and bend my own brake lines first and see how that goes. i can only find 5 foot lengths of brake line, so the one that goes on the back side of the engine compartment to the passenger side is going to have a junction in there somewhere, not the preferred way to do it, but i cant find any lengths longer than 5 feet at the local napa, kragen, or car quest, any idea n where i can get a longer length besides ordering it online and waiting???...i do have a hydraulic flaring tool that was about 350 bucks from mastercool and it makes the perfect flares....

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Dude,
I bent all of mine when I redid my Olds. Trust me when I say the having a good flaring tool and long lengths of tubing are going to be the least of your headaches! If you are as fussy about how you do things as I am, getting the tubes bent like the originals is what will drive you crazy. Try to preserve the originals as best you can so that you can match them up as you go. The tight radius bends are the hardest, along with bends that are close together because the tools that are available to us hackers, at least at that time, were not friendly to that type of work. It is also one of those jobs that would be easier if we were all born with 3 arms. I have seen bending tools in the Eastwood catalog (just proves that they are available SOMEWHERE) that can be clamped in a vise and I thought that would have saved me lots of indigestion and my kids wouldn't have the expansive vocabulary that they do now! You will need to be patient and having an extra set of hands around when you do the lines in the engine compartment, for example, will make the task much more rewarding. L8r

Jim