where to get decent brake parts

[z3i]

Need to buy some stuff to rebuild a rear axle i bought
looked on the gsf website and some stuff is premium quality which i dont mine buying at a resonable price
But i dont want the cheapy crappy stuff, and cant afford genuine
anyone know any good makes or places i can get good oem equipment for resonable money
need
slave cylinders
metal brake lines
drums
shoes
shoe fitting kit
hand brake cable
and anything else i need thats attatched to the rear axle
already got bushes
many thanks

[hayesey]

never had any problems with GSF stuff myself.

[hayesey]

for brake lines, buy a decent flaring tool and make your own.

[z3i]

for brake lines, buy a decent flaring tool and make your own.

ok mate ill go gsf if you reccomend it, which is good as i get huge discounts
cant stand copper pipes and flaring the it looks awfull, the pipe always comes out all bendy and is never perfectly straight, is there not a kit anyone sells, steel one, can you gey stainless lines?
thanks

[hayesey]

you can buy steel brake pipe if you want but it's much, much harder to flare and impossible to flare with the usual DIY tools, you'll need a decent vice-mount tool for it, probably wont get change from £100.

You can buy ready made pipes from motor factors but probably going to be copper again and you still have to bend them.  I don't think you can buy a ready made, pre-bent pipe set.

I dare say the neatest way will be to use copper (since it's so much easier to work with) and bend it off the car using the old pipes as a template. 

[z3i]

Ok cheers, if i do it in copper it will just annoy me, may have to go to a specialist and get some made up proffesionally, gptta be companys out there

[hayesey]

yeah I bet there'll be companies around who do such things for people restoring classics and what not.

[Andy]

Proper flaring tools for OEM-equivalent laminate steel brake pipe are several hundred quid, plus VW were the only source of the correct lines that I could find in the UK.

I settled for copper-nickel (also known as cupro-nickel, kunifer, cunifer) lines made up by Automec as I was replacing the whole lot. Was £125 for the lot and saved me the hassle of flaring them myself. The copper-nickel is a bit stiffer than straight copper, so doesn't kink as easily and is better to bend by hand.

In the past I've flared bog standard copper ones to replace the rear lines, and never managed a hugely neat job.

[Andy]

If you find someone willing to make up OEM equivalent lines let me know. Just bare in mind that you can't bend them nicely by hand, so I imagine it might be a pig to get a neat job.

I think it was Kiz that used heatshrink for aesthetic purposes on copper lines.

[PeteG40]

I've got cunifer lines I made up from compensator back for my saloon if u want a look

[z3i]

I've got cunifer lines I made up from compensator back for my saloon if u want a look

yes please mate would give me an idea
thanks for the help people. Thats what i mean i hate the look it gives when bending by hand. Thats a dam good price though for that kit, im tempted by the price

will have a search around, im sure theres people out there in the same boat and want neat brake lines on classic cars. Though i cant imagine this being cheap
need to get mine done as it was an advisory and they look pretty crusty
Cheers taylor

[Andy]

Have a look in my build thread to see how my copper-nickel lines turned out - they were bent by hand.

[z3i]

Have a look in my build thread to see how my copper-nickel lines turned out - they were bent by hand.

they actually look pretty good! And for £125! Sounds pretty cheap think ill be going this option, all pre cut and flared id save by not having to buy the flaring tool
thanks for posting
Taylor