brake lines for d44 swap

[Burns]

Mine is a new hard line coming from the master cylinder which then in turn splits off with the stock d44 front brake line set up. As BKennedy said the Stock d44 starts at the top of the chunk. Comes from a flex line and then splits into 2 hard lines that run to each side. Then branches back off to flex line to the brakes.

 

[Dannyboy]

I like the idea of that.

Was it a lot of bending to get it under the crossmember?

 

[Burns]

I think it gets near the crossmember but never has to bend around it. So you really have to run it down to what ever bracked you make for the stock 44 flex line and the hard line to attach too

Mine attaches to my coil bucket drop brackets

 

[ReDLiNeZL]

man it just so hard to picture this, cant i just run it out of this or no?

 

[BKennedy]

I think it gets near the crossmember but never has to bend around it. So you really have to run it down to what ever bracked you make for the stock 44 flex line and the hard line to attach too

Mine attaches to my coil bucket drop brackets

Yeah, but your rig is a 1991 Explorer with rear ABS only. Red's has four wheel ABS, and I don't think he can just run off the master cylinder without redoing the rear as well. That would not be too bad, he could get rid of about 25 feet of brake line and some un-needed modules.

 

[BKennedy]

Actually, the more I think about this (never a good thing), I am pretty sure that when you hook up the front brakes, the ABS will just cease to function because it can't read the missing sensors. You could pull the ABS fuses in the engine compartment fuse box, then hook it up right off the module, which is that black thing you took the pictures of.

 

[Burns]

Now if i am thinking right (which is worse than anyone thinking) why cant he just remvoe all the abs stuff and use the lines that are left and just make them work to fit up to the master cylinder with out running a new line all the way to the back? Then just make the new one for the front using cuplings and new hard line.


And you are right about the pulling the fuse on the abs. We keep the fuse pulled in out 94 just not to have abs.

 

[BKennedy]

Just because its a pain in the rear to remove all that stuff. I guess it is do-able, and to do it right, it should be done. I bet the line that runs from the master cylinder to the ABS module for the front brakes is long enough to bend down towards the pumpkin, which would make it easy to hook up. I am planning on ripping all that stuff out when I do my SAS. I guess it all depends on where the rear brake lines hook into the module as to how much of a pain it is going to be. I have not really looked at it with taking it out in mind. Not to mention the proportioning valve.

 

[ReDLiNeZL]

so im probally gona run them out of the abs unit and just pull the fuse

 

[BKennedy]

so im probally gona run them out of the abs unit and just pull the fuse

We didn't end up being all that much help, sorry. There are several different ways to run the brake lines, as I am sure you figured out. The easiest is to pull the ABS fuse(s), and run the new brake line right off the ABS module.

 

[ReDLiNeZL]

We didn't end up being all that much help, sorry. There are several different ways to run the brake lines, as I am sure you figured out. The easiest is to pull the ABS fuse(s), and run the new brake line right off the ABS module.

sounds like thats whats im going to do, i may run them down to the rear and across to each caliper.. well see when time comes