We have had a lot of people ask, so just to clarify, the lines we used are not pure copper brake lines, they are Cunifer or Copper Nickel lines, which are as far as we know, legal for road use here in Victoria. It is a product that is mainly used overseas, not so much here on OEM vehicles, as it is designed to be easy to work with as well as prevent rusting.

Came for the tips on brake swaps, stayed for the mint Toto performance at 4:46

To late now but next time you guys are making up brake lines, use welding wire to make a template first of where you want the bends. So much easier 👍

Nice video but you should probably have used flex line to the calipers to allow you to remove them and not have to disconnect and re-bleed the system whenever you change the rotors. Great build

It’s good to watch a couple of mates have a lot of fun a lot of laughs why they’re building a killer car

Haha . . . HQ brake boosters!! I remember as a first year apprentice, during all the industrial turmoil in the 70's the evening news would show file footage of the Holden plant when the story was about the Vehicle Builder's Union going out on strike yet again. The film showed a HQ coming up the line towards the camera then the line did a LH turn. The car was just a body shell, painted. With a brake booster fitted. I found out why the brake booster was the first thing fitted to the body when I had to change one!! Man those top nuts were pricks! I ended up removing the speedo and running 2 x 12" extensions down the speedo hole with someone else trying to hold the socket on the nut. A 2 man job to change a brake booster. Holy Mother Of God!! Love ya work boyz.

@HackshopGarage

3 жыл бұрын

Hahah glad to see we arnt the only ones who dreaded it 😂😂

My dudes, happy to watch an episode on brakes, I’ll be working on mine soon enough so this’ll be a nice reference 😁

Love you guys videos. Some of the best content getting around. Plus you are both entertaining. Keep up the good work

@HackshopGarage

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate, that’s great to hear

Awesome video today guys thanks

@HackshopGarage

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate, glad to hear it 👍🏼

I’ll be doin the same soon, so this was helpful for me 👍🏼

@HackshopGarage

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome to hear mate

Another cracking video lads👍 we used to make a kind of template with coat hangers, but its impossible to find the metal ones now. Maybe some mig wire or fencing wire. Meanwhile I'm off to protest, "Metal hangers matter! Metal hangers matter!"

@HackshopGarage

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha I like your movement, all for it! 😂

@scod3908

2 жыл бұрын

You can buy the metal coat hangers from woolies, I use them to replace steel listing in seats.

You may also need to ditch the residual line pressure valve. They're meant to keep the seals in a wheel cylinder expanded against the bore to prevent leaks. It will just make your calipers drag the pads against the disc. You should probably talk to your brake guy about the proportioning valve too. Drums tend to need less brake pressure than discs, your rear brakes may be less effective now. I stand to be corrected on that one though.

@HackshopGarage

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah ok, that’s fair enough. We had spoken about whether the proportioning valve needs to be changed, but we were told that in HQs they should be fine, but if anyone has any experience with a similar set up, we will take it on board too

Great videos, gents.

@HackshopGarage

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate

You could use coat hangers to make the patterns for brake lines then when bending the real stuff it should make working out angles/ bend points a little easier, Good stuff though as always.

@HackshopGarage

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate, good tip, much appreciated

I used that brake line flaring tool on my VL Commodore where I double flared the fittings. As far as the charcoal canister goes,the fuel filler neck is my concern because the unleaded petrol tanks were fitted with a 1 way check valve inside of the fuel filler cap because the evaporative emission control system is sealed from the atmosphere apart from venting air into the fuel tank. I think that the engineers can be picky with fuel filler spout because it needs to have an unleaded fuel filler cap fitted. You can use the charcoal canister off another VT onwards Commodore ,!

My comments always seem negative, and I apologise for that. It's been a while since I was on the tools, but when I was, copper brake pipe in Australia was an absolute no no. Bundy tube was the only allowable solid line for road going cars.

@HackshopGarage

3 жыл бұрын

All good mate, we always appreciate the feedback, from what we researched, you are right, pure copper is not legal. However the lines we used are copper coated steel, we checked it with a brake guy, and he said they are just coated in copper to prevent rusting, mainly in overseas applications

I love your build guys it's helping me for when my brother asks the question "can you put a ls in my hq ute"... But just a heads up the npt thread into the wilwood calipers that you got adapters for makes them not adr approved... you may possibly get knocked back on a roady with them if the roady guy has read the rules correctly..... I'm not being a "you must comply with the law" as my cars are far from roadworthy...lol.. I just wanted to let you and everyone else know

@HackshopGarage

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate, great to hear. Thank you for the heads up, we will look into it.

Love the video. What size front brake calipers are you running

I clamp the arm of the bender in the vice to avoid the contortions

@HackshopGarage

3 жыл бұрын

Haha yeah we figured that out after shooting that segment.. learning on the fly

Looking good guys 😊 Did you say you went with Kunifer lines or Copper? Just cos ADR allows Kunifer under SAE J1470 but Copper isn't allowed. I love using Kunifer as it's so much easier to bend than crappy old steel Bundy and will never rust inside or out 😁

@HackshopGarage

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate, much appreciated. And yes the are Kunifer lines, we thought we would try something different than bundy lines just to see how it was to work with.

For gawd sake get a bigger set of tube benders... lol Just get a smaller set, they are MUCH easier to use. What you boofheads have done looks great though, keep going fellas ya's are killing it. 🤘😎

@vicoactus9246

3 жыл бұрын

Also, the longer section of the flare tool gets clamped in the vice, not the line... lol Not picking on you, just offering advice, you are quite welcome to tell me to piss off. Lol 😁👍

@HackshopGarage

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha nah all feedback is appreciated, like we say, we are learning as we go, after that one we figured that out and clamped it into the vice each time haha. Thanks mate

that barrel you had in your hand is a residual line pressure valve. meant for disc drum from memory.

@HackshopGarage

3 жыл бұрын

So should it be removed then being that we are running disc in the rear now?

@stuartdoutch2045

3 жыл бұрын

@@HackshopGarage ask castlemain what they think mate i personally have no experience with willwoods so in your application it may not matter. it may not even work anymore, plenty dont.

@jpstrim

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, pull it out as she's not needed for the disc rear 👍

@marsv7777

Жыл бұрын

Incorrect ! Its a Proportioning valve to control pressure to back drum brakes, The residual pressure valve lives in the master cylinder, only used in drum brake applications. seeing that they have a 4 wheel disc master cylinder . No problem with residual pressure. If using a factory disc/drum master cylinder for 4 wheel disc, the residual pressure valve must be removed..

Copper Nickel tube? I was getting anxious, but you mentioned "it's not copper" so good. Copper will NEVER pass engineering. Just putting it out there. Bundy tube (Copper/nickel) is accepted by ASRF in QLD, and other states. It's a good looking HQ fellas, well done. *edit* hey guys, do you have a link for the brake line? I've been straightening out and using my old lines from donor vehicles on my street rod, as templates/samples. So I need to re-make them all once planned out of new stuff. Fuel lines too, but that's my problem. Cheers !

@HackshopGarage

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah that’s the one mate. I wish we had of mentioned it in the video 😅 thanks mate

Nathan should have done the brake lines on both sides of diff

@HackshopGarage

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@barra245t2

3 жыл бұрын

@@HackshopGarageseriously though,you guys put out some good as content.theres a tube straightening tool for bundy tube,check them out they look prety handy. I'm about to replace the brake lines on my eb2 Fairmont.ive recently just re bushed the car with the superpro kit and decided the old brake lines were to grotty to stay.

@HackshopGarage

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah ok, awesome thanks mate. We will have a look

this build is great and you guys have helped with my hq LS wagon build, tits!

@HackshopGarage

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate, awesome to hear that!

@scott8581

3 жыл бұрын

Hackshop Garage shutup

Also, 17:17 filthy 😂

Hi love the channel, but don’t think you can use copper for brake lines ..

@HackshopGarage

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate, they arnt pure copper lines, they are Cunifer lines, otherwise known as Copper Nickel lines, which as far as we know, are road legal in Victoria.

Copper pipe is not adr here in aus boys go with stainless!

@HackshopGarage

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah they arnt pure copper, they are copper plated steel lines

Are the lines copper? Looks like it

@HackshopGarage

3 жыл бұрын

They are copper plated steel lines

@douglasbaxter3346

3 жыл бұрын

Hackshop Garage oh that’s nice was thinking oh shit I hope they didn’t

@HackshopGarage

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha we only realised that they will be mistaken for copper until after we had filmed haha

@douglasbaxter3346

3 жыл бұрын

Hackshop Garage definitely someone would of said something and half the time they would of straight up bashed on you for using copper wen it fact it isn’t

Is their any saving your mate Nathan from his weird Ford fetish?

Isn't there still supposed to be a flex line from the ends of the diff to the calliper? Are you gonna undo and rebleed the brakes every time you need to pull the disk off?

@HackshopGarage

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah so there were no brackets on the diff to mount the flexible line where it would connect into the hardline. So we decided to go straight to the Calipers, which does mean in the case that we have to pull the rotor off, we will need to re-bleed the brakes

@LawnPotato

3 жыл бұрын

@@HackshopGarage Yeah ok I thought it looked like it was missing something. Does look clean without them though and I love the look of copper bundy tube.

Would you like to know the purpose of the extended part on the main body of the flaring tool? It's to put in the vice so you don't do something as dodgy as you blokes just did and put the brake line in the vice...Cringe level 9000.

@HackshopGarage

3 жыл бұрын

Haha yeah we figured that out after the first one

@JRowe95

3 жыл бұрын

@@HackshopGarage Lol live and learn I guess.

Those flaring tools are stink. Borrow one off a rich mate that has an expensive one.