RDB line routing... (2 Viewers)

[Pighead]

Emboldened by my recent success at posting pics of my DD here without too much flaming, I'm going to push my luck and cross-post from the 40/55 tech forum.
I'm halfway through a RDB conversion (not hardcore) using the Poser package, contemplating final brake line routing.
2 reasons why I post this in Hardcore.
1) It looks like, in my mock-up, that a convenient spot to weld the Tombstone tabs is the U-bolt plates. From a Hardcore point of view, is that stupid? Am I missing something obvious and require a facepalm? Is there a well-known Hardcore anecdote that illustrates exactly why I don't do that? Prefer to get the facepalm before I do any welding.
B) Am I being overprotective of my brakelines? Do the real Hardcore 'wheelers run their soft brakeline under the springs and never have a problem? I realize that it is a fairly well-protected area, and odds are that I will never see a rock just that size & shape, but as long as I'm there...
I'm not particularly fond of the softline suggested in the RDB threads, I'm already planning a trip to the shop that makes soft brakelines, all my other brakelines are SS (still not Hardcore) so I figure I can get almost any shape I want
III) Rig is an SOA FJ55 (technically fits Hardcore under the "fab-from-scratch" clause).

Short question: What's my best route?
Thanks.

 

[chicago]

On my 60 series axles, the transition around the spring pack is UNDER.
The biggest difference that I see from mine to yours is the lower shock mount is in the way.
Not to flame your new found emboldened sense of self, but that just LOOKS a bit sketchy to me the way you have it set up. Not for ANY particular reason, it just LOOKS bad.
Do you EVER hit your bumps with your spring pack?
Im sure it can and will run with great success, but...if it were me I might be apt to MAYBE route it....man...I donno?

 

[Chop Shop]

Real hardcore wheelers dont have brakes!

 

[Chop Shop]

I would weld a tab onto the rear housing just inside the inner Ubolt. That way the line running under the spring would be the rubber hose coming from the caliper. Then it can be a little more tolerant of contact than the metal line.

Just imagine the white is the hose the red as the tabs and the yellow as the hard lines and the orange as the calipers. Fawkin masterpiece, I know.

But with your shock location I would do all that on the front side of the axle.

Either way you do it a hardline or a rubber hose is in harms way but I would prefer the rubber hose be in harms way. Its easy to keep ONE rubber extra hose on board. It will fit both sides while each side hardline is different and would require more spares and space to carry the longer one.

Rubber hoses can be stretched time after time and smashed pretty good before failure compared to a hardline.

And please disregard all of this if you must use garbage flexible braided StainlessSteel hoses.

 

[boots4]

If you do run it over the springs just make sure it will not get smashed by any bump stop contact. If mine were in that location they'd get flattened since that's where my stops contact. I run mine like Chop painted and I have had just the perfect rock in the right spot smash and bust open a rubber flex line. Wisely someone in our group had several spares so it was easily fixed and bled on the trail. I kept my routing under the axle but have replaced the flex hose with braided line that is shorter so that it stays closer to the axle housing making it even harder for a re-smash.

 

[Pighead]

That's a couple of good points, what I needed to know. So I changed it.

 

[55guy]

I"M watching you

bleeder screw on top ??? oops ,I see it now !

 

[Pighead]

Bleeder screw always goes on top, it's the Hardcore way.