Nismo and myself are in the process of fitting my hoses.... Has anyone fitted these before?
I cant seem to work out which go where... the long one is wayyy too big for the front however the short ones seem to have the wrong connectors? If you have the short ones at the back they dont appear to be long enough....

CONFUSED!



Any help would be greatly appriciated

Mario

Give me a bell at the unit Mario

The long ones in the picture have the rubber mount for the metal bracket on the original flexi hoses it would appear. The short ones look like they will fit between the caliper and that long one. (tbh its been a while since i've seen the stnd setup)

Ross

Long ones are for the front and if they look too long they'll be designed to replace the hard pipe to the caliper as well.

Rears have two, one into caliper and one to handle the step between body and rear trailing arm.

Cheers all!

so have you botched fitted them up mate?

We await with bated breath for the "I've just butchered my steel brake pipes thread"...............

hahahahahaha

nope the brake lines are well and truly siezed...
Cars going to my dads garage on wed to get some bodywork done so while its there im going to get new brake lines made up and they can fit the braided lines

.... wooos

Did you not prep them with plus gas before attempting to change them?

Ross

A sensible shout in the circumstances methinks.........

you ALWAYS cock it up when marco isn't doing it for you

shhh you!

So true!!!

I've not been here long and am not the most perceptive of people, but even I've picked up that you've got the opposite of the midas touch with these things!

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Everything turns to poo!

Im going to have to agree to disagree on that one

Mario your set seems different to the one I've received, in your set the long hoses haven't got the curved fitting at the end.

My set is different.... mine arnt curved at the end?

Has anyone fitted these before? if so did your set look like Deviltje or were they like mine (no bend on the brembo end)

Mine are from suba's (?) original group buy, dunno if the HEL lines were copied fom that, but mine have the 90° bend at the caliper end and I would think they need that otherwise on full lock where the front of the wheel points inwards, the hose might foul something?

PS: Mario, can't see your pic?

Mine had the curve. Might be worth raising it with the supplier. I was surprised the flexible hose wasn't a straight replacement but instead went all the way to the calliper. I wasn't entirely happy about that given the extra freedom for the hose to wander.

for fccuk-sake thanks guys
This is going to set me back big time!

Will be on the phone to them tomorrow...I wonder if its to do with the two part numbers, ones a 20vt and ones a 20vt plus?

btw photobucket is down for somepeople at the moment hence why my image isnt working

Just spoken to a few people and the kits sometimes come with the bend and sometimes come without. Its not essential, however you can purchase the bend if you want.

Thanks for clearing it up. Odd to me they didn't just stick to the original design.

That's because (AFAIK) the longer front hoses are based on suba's original design to overcome the problems with shorter braided hoses in place of the OE hoses, you can read about it here: http://www.fiatcoupeclub.org/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=615504#Post615504

I've had them fitted for nearly 3 year without a problem. But I think you need the 90° bend at the caliper end.