After 30 years in the salty streets of Minneapolis, the brake lines finally acquiesced to snow melt. The brake lines are longer than the standard 8 ft lengths you can get at the auto parts store, so I have to start with a 25ft coil of 3/16 brake line.
Step 1. Built a tool. Instead of spending $300 on a brake line straightener. I found the general idea from a blogger building up a classic mini; but he's dropping in a 1.3l turbo from a toyota starlet. I built my own for $50. It will straighten 3/16" and 1/4" line. I built my tool to mount to the bench vice. It allows flexibility of a variable distance between the dies. If you remove two of the five dies you can then use this set up to bend a large diameter bend in the brake line. Something I needed to do to follow the contour of the gas tank. This is the same technique used to bend curves in sheet metal with a 3 wheel roller press.
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| Remove the jaws and mount the tool |
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| Step 2. Straighten the line |
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| Bend the line as close as you can to the original |
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