How to protect braided steel lines

I have a bunch of braided steel lines on our LeMons car for the clutch, brakes, etc...

How do we protect the lines from ruining everything they touch? How do we protect the lines from things cutting them?

I was thinking about zip tying some rubber hose over top of teh line anywhere it will touch something.

Is this good enough? Should I try something else?

Thanks!

Sounds good to me.

That works well. I've also heard of using spiral wire wrap, and I like the idea. Lighter and easier to do.

Rubber hose should work just fine.

yea.. the stainless braided stuff makes for great saws where you don't want them

if worried about routing these through firewalls... you can use a piece of W/W line(or fine vacuum hose) split it lengthwise, and fit it around the hole itself.

WHY did i never think of that?!?!?!

Use heat shrink tubing (thats what the f1 guys do).

Kendall

I've always used spiral wrap.

You don't need to protect the braided lines. You just need to protect anything that they may touch, as they will eat right through ANYTHING.

I always tie them down so they don't move around. Bits of rubber hose around them where they touch something else, etc. Plenty of zip ties. Had one oil hose eat part way through a rear brake master cylinder on my bike. Didn't even mark the hose.

I prefer the Russell brand lines.

We make s/s and Teflon hoses. Tubing is good but we have to slip it on before crimping the couplings.

We also use an orange silicone frye sleeve and band the ends on. I like that spiral wrap too.

buy the s/s lines that already have the clear plastic coating over them.

problem solved.

I've seen just as much damage to the lines as the rest of the car. I've seen a tire eat through a brake line, for example. I've also seen the lines start to abrade and develop the nastiest little needles to mess up your hands. They need to be protected, no question.

spray them down with plasti-dip?

Smear on a thin coating of silicone. Double up on the serious parts.

irish44j wrote: buy the s/s lines that already have the clear plastic coating over them. problem solved.

I rarely use SS when a stock line can be bought. But when an off the shelf line of any sort is not available, then an SS line is made up and covered with spiral wrap.

The only DOT approved braided brake lines I can get made locally have the clear plastic coating. I dig it.