Ordered stainless steel tacoma lines in order to delete the hard line that goes into the caliper. Seen it recommended in various places on the forum. Go to thread the line in and it doesn't seem to have much thread engagement before it bottoms out, definitely doesn't look right, but it doesn't seem to be leaking although I haven't bled the brakes yet. Here's what I've noticed, the hard line fitting seems to have an unthreaded portion at the tip, and the old rubber hose isn't threaded at the bottom of the female fitting. The tacoma lines, however appear to be threaded clear to the bottom. Is everyone else doing this mod just tightening snug and it works with no leaks?

On a whim I noticed the hard line out of the caliper has the same double flared fitting but without the unthreaded portion and it screws into the tacoma lines much better.

Option A: cut my losses on the $100 ss lines and just replace with oem, forget the hard line delete

Option B: Go to O'reily and rent a flare tool and try my luck at reflaring the proper? Double flared fitting without the unthreaded portion

Option C: Tighten up the fittings super snug and bleed the brakes and see what happens, obviously risking popping threads on my shiny new stainless lines.

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Lack of thread engagement?


Two types of brake fittings:



I'm driving myself nuts with this, every write up I've seen on tacoma brake lines has the hard line pictured but it's always capped so I can't tell which type of line it's supposed to use!! Any help, much appreciated.

I'm sorry but I can't see why this would be needed
Soft lines only exist in places where they need to flex. I don't think you're gonna get anything out of this but a headache and a lighter wallet
Or am I not reading this right, seeing as that new piece is a hard line?

no you’re…correct unfortunately. haha definitely have a headache and a lighter wallet but my thought was it would be easier to delete the hardline instead of fiddling with buying a new one from o reily and renting the bender and dealing with flaring and all that. this of course before i realized they’re like $10 from the toyota dealer pre bent

It's alright that's how you learn. I see your working the fb forums as well on this subject.

You can always do as you wish as it's your rig. I just pull the clip and use the rubber flex lines to move the caliper around.

Hopefully this will work out for you as you want it too...


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I use the nickel/copper lines, you buy them in bulk at auto parts. They are a color that ressemble a new penny.

These can be bent with your hand and never corrode. No need to buy brakes line anymore