Copper brake lines

Thanks, but my Rear N/S has two Unions (one bigger than the other) and the O/S has just one Union whiuch is the same as the small one on the N/S.

Did you get these as well?

I'm looking at doing mine over the coming weeks, how much pipe did you roughly use ?

I shall also replace my fuel lines whilst under there as they are looking tatty has anyone changed them for out and used fuel hose instead of hard pipe before ?

facade wrote: The only difficulty is removing the fragile clips that hold the pipes along the chassis from front to back, I did my brake and fuel pipes at the same time, took all day with trying not to break the clips.

You can get new clips for next to nothing on here: www.carbuildersolutions.com/uk/ along with everything else you might need, so you may aswell just rip the old clips out and replace with new. They will be old and brittle now.

Kirkynut

A useful site that I've bookmarked for later.

However, I couldn't find anything like the Suzuki clips on there, they do sell double and triple brakepipe clips @ £6 for 5, as well as 1 fuel 1 brake.

The Suzuki Clips are 2 brake, 2 large fuel and 1 medium fuel, and clip over the protruding studs. I didn't fancy drilling holes in the chassis for P clips. Mine is held by what clips I could salvage and some giant cable ties, passed MOT with no comment, except the rear axle lines are corroding green, and it all needs painting- news to me, I thought copper was fit & forget, apart from painting the unions :whistle:


If there was a Suzuki agent with a spares department within driving distance, I would have bought new ones and ripped the old out, but my nearest Suzuki agent is over an hour away. :ohmy:

facade wrote: ...except the rear axle lines are corroding green, and it all needs painting- news to me, I thought copper was fit & forget, apart from painting the unions :whistle:

It is, the garage is talking ball bags. Copper will develop a green film but it wont rot through in the Jimny's life time or even yours, unless you drive through acid lakes or something

That green film will infact act as a barrier to limit further corrosion anyway.

No need to paint your pipes

If you have original pipes and they are still plenty serviceable - coat them in grease now and they will stay that way - perhaps with a new coating once a year. It takes 10 mins.

Kirkynut