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Laverdaroo:
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Laverdaroo:
Afternoon all.
So I’ve got the twin calliper’s on the front of the 550 but thought of a question whilst driving about this morning in me digger.
Is it the done thing to use two of the rigid brake lines to mount onto the calliper before using braided lines there after?
Also, twin lines or single to a splitter and a separate line to each calliper? Has anyone had good results with either methodology?
I’m going to have to get some wire out tonight and see if I can get a length for the different lines as my heap didn’t come with brake lines attached hence the ask.
Obviously if using two of the solid lines means my braided ones will be shorter, I can’t see any advantage in using them but happy to be corrected by this in the ‘know’
Cheers all
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K2-K6:
It won't make any difference to operating if you go two seperate, split both, single to somewhere then split, the pressure is all the same, so free choice from that point.
I'd favour two banjo on mc then straight run to caliper twice as simplest, least joints, extra kit etc.
Think you can only come straight out of caliper with pipe as that's conditional on sealing the taper at bottom of hole. That's as opposed to using a banjo that seals on the casting face.
Oddjob:
My last way of doing this was single braided line down to the splitter box in the bottom yoke and 2 braided lines from there direct to the caliper. This did away with the rigid line altogether. These were made by Goodridge back in the 70s. Due to them not using stainless steel fittings in that era they rusted badly when in storage so they aren’t really reusable. This time I went to HEL as I’ve used them before and there service is great, slightly different setup this time, still single braided line from mc to bottom yoke, then 2 braided to the hard lines and hard lines into the caliper. Explain to whoever makes them that you want an extra bottom line due to the twin calipers and that should solve you having to measure anything as the lengths are well known by now.
Sesman:
I’ve done the same as Ken, but my only gripe was not being able to find a ready made grommet holder for the solid line on The RHS. But I’m using the standard front guard.
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