Brake Line Help

[MRKUS66]

Good Afternoon everyone. I am slowly rebuilding a 66 C-10 and curently working on the brakes. I am keeping the 4 wheel Drum brakes for now but I want to add a brake booster and new master cylinder, a couple of the hard brake lines are broken and I was going to replace all the hard lines, but I have gotten conflicing information from a couple people. When I bought the booster I was going to get the new lines, I was told the lines I was going to get would not work with a booster, so I asked which lines I needed and he said he didnt know, just not the ones I was going to get.

So My question is what kind of hard brake lines do I need to get to replace them.

[bigmoe]

Are you staying with the single pot master for now? If so just measure the length of the line coming out of the old master. Add about 4" and buy a universal length from any car parts store. They'll have a bin full of various sizes and lengths. You'll have to bend it to fit. You can first make the shape using something like coat hanger wire and then copy it.

[MRKUS66]

I was going to go with a dual chamber master

[MRKUS66]

Originally Posted by bigmoe

Are you staying with the single pot master for now?

I was going to go with a 2 chamber master

[bigmoe]

You can buy different quality benders. This is a cheap example. Just be careful not to crimp it.

[bigmoe]

Dual masters are either drum/drum or disc/drum. And the brake line routing is more complex than the single pot. You'll need a proportioning valve.

There's a whole section on brakes in the FAQ section.