Factory hardline was bent down, in a similar fashion as to how baer recommends bending them for their kit... I initially wanted to cut the factory line and reflare, so I wasnt hesitant to try bending the line and seeing if it would be "clean enough" for me to leave it alone after... it worked out great, other than me wishing i knew how long the ss lines would need to be and ordered those instead of the factory lines... isnt much of a big deal to just order them anyway, but i will order a kit for front and back, next time i need to service the brakes... that being said, these lines work well enough together...

factory line originally oriented like this


to this

 

the lines from the caliper were routed running down along the caliper, but i would have liked to run them out and away from the wheel (perpendicular to the wheel) as the factory wheels on my truck are 17". had to tie them up and away from the wheel, will replace the zip ties with some metal clamps im making, though the good quality ties i used, would prob be perfectly fine, until i change the lines to braided...

you can see, the line kind of sticks out a little, which would prob be fine with any larger of a wheel


i initially thought to modify the hose end to be able to rotate it away from the wheel, but decided not to, as i will be replacing these lines to braided soon

 

There is still very smooth radius at the bend, no kink, restriction etc... again, this will be changed soon to a shorter more appropriately fit up line soon... had to start somewhere

 

 

you can see the bleeder screw (with a hose attached to it for bleeding it) in the pic... and can imagine the orientation of the bleeder screw when properly installed and torqued. i took the upper bolt out the pin, rotated the caliper up so that the bleeder was in the correct position for bleeding. Cut a 2x4 down to fit inside the caliper and then bleed all the air out of the system (starting with the pass rear, driv rear, pass front, driver front)... also took the time to flush all the old fluid out the system...

 

I then routed the new ebrake cables.. the passenger side cable routed and bolted up along the same route as the original... the drivers side in a similar fashion, but flattened down the tab on the bracket... drilled a hole for it to be secured nicely and bolted to the shock hanger... to keep it up closer to the axle...

 

passenger side routing

 

as it should, utilizes the factory bracket locations, etc... and snaps right in where the other was taken out...

 

drivers side.. .seemed funny before i hooked it all up, because it is oriented vertically, but it connected together fine and works just as good as it did before the swap...