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'69 Fury III Convertible Build Thread- Project IVY
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And it continues....
Wollfen
Old Man with a Hat
Sorry I havent gotten back to you yet, I have been flat out tearing down a 60 foot mobile home and I have to get it all done and cleaned up by Saturday. I will get those pics though.
Samplingman
Old Man with a Hat
Nick, is that steel line?
Copper/Nickel, the best stuff you can buy and use, resists corrosion, bends smoother, flares better.
All I use at work, it's not cheap though, 25 feet of steel 3/16 is $8, 25 feet of the cop/Nick in 3/16 is $35
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
That's cheap in my book. Well worth it.
Samplingman
Old Man with a Hat
I bought some steel line a few years ago, and it is very hard to bend, I'll have to look into the copper/nickel. Interesting, I have no place on my stub frame to clip the brake hoses to. Did you add those? Do they bolt up or are they welded. Great job, BTW, I'll be tackling this soon myself.
polara71
Old Man with a Hat
Samplingman
Old Man with a Hat
Thought you were going after that one?
The clips were on there from day 1, it and the parts car I just dismantled have them, I'm not sure how they are held in?
Anyway.....my parking brakes work.......when I go to do the back half of the car I'll have to take all of this apart again, but it's easier now.......80s cop car brakes and 80s cop car rims work so well together......I figure a few more days and the convertible will have something it hasn't had since 2011 or so.......brakes....albeit much better brakes, larger rear power drums and power disc brakes rather then manual drums all around....
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saylor
Senior Member
holy **** its almost ready
Glad to see Angel getting some love.
65sporty
Old Man with a Hat
Looking good, the copper/nickel lines rock. Very easy to work with.
bluefury361
Old Man with a Hat
70bigblockdodge
Old Man with a Hat
They are not 100% copper, they are DOT approved and once you use them you will never use anything else. Stainless becomes brittle when worked creating a fragile spot at a flare, put some street and strain flexing a real street car and you will have a failure. This is the reason auto makers do not use the stuff. Stainless is for trailer cars and tv show cars. Copper nickel is for cars that get used. Steel lines are for stubborn people that like to do brake lines the hard way over and over.
Copper-nickel is probably not readily available much further south of the Mason Dixon line.
On my restoration we used black powder coated zinc double wall copperized steel from JEGS. Looks great and real easy to work with.
bluefury361
Old Man with a Hat
[QUOTE="70bigblockdodge, Stainless becomes brittle when worked creating a fragile spot at a flare, put some street and strain flexing a real street car and you will have a failure. This is the reason auto makers do not use the stuff. Stainless is for trailer cars and tv show cars.QUOTE]
Not my experience.
There's a reason copper/nickel is so much less expensive, and the ease of bending speaks for itself.
It takes higher quality tooling to work the stainless tube, but do it once and it's forever.
Not my experience.
There's a reason copper/nickel is so much less expensive, and the ease of bending speaks for itself.
It takes higher quality tooling to work the stainless tube, but do it once and it's forever.
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