Excellent craftsmanship!!!

Thanks for the kind comments guys. In the end it's not really craftsmanship but mostly persistence to learn new things that keeps me going. I do wish I was faster though!

I am really enjoying your build, keep up the great work! From what I can see you are using 80 grit to prep metal surfaces(with a combination of DA and die grinder), is this correct?

That's pretty close. The car was sand blasted and I just touch it up with 80 grit on the D/A every so often. If I am working in an area, and I spot a little surface rust, I just sand it out. I also use the flap wheel quite often to smooth out welded areas and a little hand held die grinder, smaller D/A and a tiny belt sander for the tight spots. I learned the hard way using junky tools and finally bought a couple of really good Dynabrade D/As and use good quality paper, it really cuts fast. I do need a better die grinder though. About the only thing I hate to use are carbide cutters. The little metal shards end up everywhere and they are sharp and painful wherever they stick you. I also have a little bit of conditioned air (stolen from my house) pumped in the garage. I realize keeping it bare metal won't work in some parts of the country, but AZ is pretty darn dry!
Also, avoid touching metal with bare hands. Gloves keep your skin moisture from starting new rust spots, but I forget that one all the time! Hope that helps.

Scott

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Beautiful evening in the garage for brake line work. Won't be able to work with the door open much longer !

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Thanks Scott!

Vent lines and differential brake lines
 

I made a little more progress on things. I bought some Earls vapor guard hose and fittings for the fuel tank and differential vent and got those all plumbed.

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I ordered some 3/16 and 1/4 inch brake line from Classic Tube. I also ordered a really nice tubing straightener from Inline Tube. It looked heavy duty in the photos and I liked the gear drive. It was huge when it finally arrived, sort of overkill for 3/16 brake tubing. My friend and coworker Dustin also loaned me his hydraulic tubing flare tool – nice!

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I jumped in and started making patterns with aluminum welding rod. You can see how different the tubes are from stock to clear the DSE 4-link brackets. It took a little while to figure everything out but the results were good.

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I made these little brackets for the brake hoses from some stainless angle.

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One trick I stumbled on when a magnet accidently stuck to a bracket, use magnets to keep small parts from dropping to the bottom of your glass beading cabinet. Not sure why I didn’t think of it before!

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The differential brake lines are almost complete. I ordered some little stainless clamps to secure them in a couple more spots. I also need to find a center differential brake hose. Here are some images of the installation.

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I am going to route the brake line through the subframe connector like I did on the other side with the fuel line. I got started on the channel and picked up some scrap stainless to make the little cover.

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I ordered a proportioning valve bracket so I can get that mounted and this week will finish the subframe cover and start on the rest of the brake lines.

Scott, that is just awesome. I finally mounted the ECM bracket I made from your template. Thanks again!!!

Hey that's great I am glad it worked out for you. Hoping to get into wiring mine later this year!

Looking good! Nice tools and you did a nice job on the lines.