The adventure begins - HEL Stainless Steel Brake Line Kit

This is a fairly important thread considering that the Hel kit doesn't come with instructions for our particular application; even a line drawing with the new lines routed would have been fine. Add into the mix that the lines are not marked and are not a one-for-one swap. I don't want to shit on Hel but I thought with was going to be somewhat easier than the experience I've had.

I got lines test fitted, routed and hand tight just to see what the whole picture should look like. Soon I'll mark them and remove again so I can rebuild the calipers and assorted other parts in the brake system.

Please have a look at the following pictures and comments. I need some feed back before I decide to remove the Hel kit and go with another brand.

In this pic, the front port goes to the PCV. Due to the way the banjo is angled and line is made I cannot flip it, this will result in the line not fitting correctly at the PCV end.


Another view, the angle seems slightly off to me.


The line going up is from the front port to the PCV. The other line is from the rear port to the master cylinder.


Here is a shot of the Hel line on the PCV.


This is the front master cylinder and this is what initiated by confusion on the kit. The original set up has two brake lines from the master cylinder to the lower workings on the fork calipers. Unless there is line missing, it's going to stay like this.


Here's a shot of the right caliper and the lines. The line coming from the top port of the caliper goes up to the front brake lever with the hard line manifold bolted to the delay valve. I hope this is correct.


Another view of the right caliper.


I go up a bit to the delay valve which is connected with a hard-line to the left manifold. I hope this is correct too.


A closer pic the delay valve. You can't really see the hard-line from the valve to the left side.


But you can see the other side here.


It seems I've reached the limit of pics....continuing below.

Here's the hard-line and manifold, etc


There is only one hard-line on the front and I've reused it as you can see here. How in the HELL am I suppose to get a line that goes from the Hel manifold on the right to the left, did they leave a line out or am I expected to source a home made line? This part pisses me off. I could be doing this all incorrect and I'm reaching out for help on this part.






Here's the left caliper, what a pain to get those lines done.


Another view...



Mounted the left and right manifold to the frame with M6-1.0x40mm socket cap screws.




Anyhow, I'd like some feedback on my install. I need information on the missing hard-line too. I think I've had it with Hel and considering getting the kit from Spiegler.

Marc, I have yet to shoot those photos of my install, but.... I've reviewed your photo's above and notice......your kit is not the same as my kit!!! It appears to me that the HEL Bird kit has been "upgraded"(?) or at least changed to a degree. The connective blocks at the upper front fork area are very different than mine and Warchilds kits. In the mean time, I've found a few pictures from my archives that may help or not. These are front caliper shots

I wanted to do a follow up on my Hel install. It turns out that in my particular situation I need to create a secondary hard-line; I don't know why I don't have this line as my brake system is stock. Anyhow, I hit up my local FLAPS (Fucking Lame Ass Parts Store) and picked up a length of brake line and a few extra fittings.



I have a flare kit and bender. After a few attempts, I was able to create a brake line that looks like this. The scale on my mat is in inches.



So now I have a line to complete my Hel brake install. The new line are using the silver fittings.





Now that I got that situated, it's time to rebuild the calipers, etc.