Converting 1935 Ford Tudor to hydraulic brakes. Would like to see some examples of how you ran your rear hard lines. Where it t's off, flex line to t fitting etc. Have a few ideas but, would like to see what others have done. Banjo rear, converted to open drive, leaf springs and tube shocks.
Just run them forward down the wishbones, like any 39-48 Ford. Then one hose from a T mounted near the bolt holding the front of the wishbones. Simple.
No wishbones here alchemy. Personally, I think hard lines run along the width of a rearend housing can look rather crude, I think it does make sense to just have one flex line drop to a single "T" somewhere on the housing. The other choice would be to "T" the hard line and run two flex-line drops to each of the rear brakes, similar to what has to be done on the front. With those two options, which I'm sure you were aware of, I'd probably lean toward running the hard line slightly forward of the top of the housing to hide it a bit, and then doing a "T" and a single flex-line drop from the frame near the center of the crossmember. You could make some mount tabs to secure the "T" and hard line at the rearend's banjo. Just some thoughts.... Lynn
Hmm. Checked the pics. A banjo rearend without wishbones or torquetube. The best of no worlds. Chuck, why'd you throw out half the parts but keep the weak parts?
The torquetube is strong, the axles are the weak parts. And if he wants the "style" of the banjo axle, why stick some ugly Posies parallel springs in there?
Hidden behind the left frame rail, then like a late model. a single flex hose down to the axle and hard lines out to the drums. With fenders on no one will notice the plumbing, or springs. -Dave
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