Length of front brake hose on my 1988 RRC is around 440mm given the diagram you have provided.
I'm looking for a front brake hose for a military Series III and someone has suggested the hose from a Range Rover Classic might be the solution.
I've attached a sketch, does anyone happen to have one handy so that they could confirm it's length. The fittings for flare nuts each end look right and are hopefully 3/8" UNF. Problem is I cannot find details of the length anywhere
Colin
'56 Series 1 with homemade welder
'65 Series IIa Dormobile
'70 SIIa GS
'76 SIII 88" (Isuzu C240)
'81 SIII FFR
'95 Defender Tanami
'58 Series II (sold)
Motorcycles :-
Vincent Rapide, Panther M100, Norton BIG4, Electra & Navigator, Matchless G80C
Length of front brake hose on my 1988 RRC is around 440mm given the diagram you have provided.
'56 Series 1 with homemade welder
'65 Series IIa Dormobile
'70 SIIa GS
'76 SIII 88" (Isuzu C240)
'81 SIII FFR
'95 Defender Tanami
'58 Series II (sold)
Motorcycles :-
Vincent Rapide, Panther M100, Norton BIG4, Electra & Navigator, Matchless G80C
You can order them in different lengths
'56 Series 1 with homemade welder
'65 Series IIa Dormobile
'70 SIIa GS
'76 SIII 88" (Isuzu C240)
'81 SIII FFR
'95 Defender Tanami
'58 Series II (sold)
Motorcycles :-
Vincent Rapide, Panther M100, Norton BIG4, Electra & Navigator, Matchless G80C
My honest advice is to look online for goodridge or hel stainless braided lines, you can get whatever length you need, all you need to do is ask.
I've not found them to be a huge price difference, ever.
I've had braided stainless hoses made here to compliance standards and those were over $250 - cost price of materials - because a mate's old man owned a huge brake workshop in the 'gong (sold now, so can't get any more favours)
Rubber hoses are ok - but I have found they do not last longer than 5 years before they show signs of fatigue and deterioration, stainless steel fittings and stainless braided teflon is a better (but more expensive) solution, the problem being that some "expert" decided that the whip test was the absolute decisive means by which a brake hose should be approved as ADR compliant, when the reality is it is not a real world failure scenario. But I digress.
The point of this is to say, that *if* you want braided lines (and believe me, you do want them for the massive pedal modulation performance benefit) then you need 'DOT' approved lines - IF the vehicle is to be registered.
If you are not registering the vehicle, then I absolutely recommend that you use speedflow stainless brake fittings and the correct teflon lined brake hose. It's a superior mechanical fitting to a crimp, and it's serviceable - which is the main thing. Race teams have been using them for literally decades and brake failures in race cars are usually due to other factors besides a whip test or a kink test(which btw a proper spec braided hose will easily pass)
here's the goodridge list for Landrover, I lifted from their cattle dog.
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Roads?.. Where we're going, we don't need roads...
To get them made, cost $47.50 plus GST (was quoted $110 by another company !).
Online you can buy the early Rangie ones for $13, $6.36 in the UK but freight pushes the price up unless you are importing other items.
The reason for looking for an equivalent from another model is that I appreciate the economies of scale when making them in quantity.
Rubber hoses seem to last OK without cracking.
Hoses fitted to the Military Series III I'm working on look like originals from 1980 (several oversprays of olive drab), no cracks and could have been re-used.
Colin
'56 Series 1 with homemade welder
'65 Series IIa Dormobile
'70 SIIa GS
'76 SIII 88" (Isuzu C240)
'81 SIII FFR
'95 Defender Tanami
'58 Series II (sold)
Motorcycles :-
Vincent Rapide, Panther M100, Norton BIG4, Electra & Navigator, Matchless G80C
'56 Series 1 with homemade welder
'65 Series IIa Dormobile
'70 SIIa GS
'76 SIII 88" (Isuzu C240)
'81 SIII FFR
'95 Defender Tanami
'58 Series II (sold)
Motorcycles :-
Vincent Rapide, Panther M100, Norton BIG4, Electra & Navigator, Matchless G80C
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