Strange brake hose attachment?

[swissranger]

I bought a Disc brake conversion kit at Master Power Brakes. The kit contains a brake hose with an attachment fitting I never saw before. Does anybody know this kind of bake hose attachment to the chassis? Of course a picture would be very much appreciated .

Thanks a lot for your help.
Roman

[fordman]

i am going to guess that the bracket that you have there will fit in place of the original frame hose bracket that came stock on your truck. i dont have a pic of the stock ones but i can get oen in the daylight if you still want one. i have a bracket that i kept just because i could

[jbrown414]

Here is a picture from Keiths tutorial.

[swissranger]

Sorry for the poor explanation of my problem (Maybe because of my Swiss English.. ).
I bought the coversion kit for my 67 SWB, and have planned to attach the brake hose in the same way than Keith's tutorial is explaining. The problem is that the fitting at the end of the brake hose looks different to those which are used for 73-79 brackets. Moreover it seems that the lenght of the hose is shorter than 73-79 hoses. Maybe this is a bake hose for a later model truck, and is attached in a different way to the chassis. It was my hope that somebody knows this kind of brake hose and its attaching method.

Roman

[F100builder]

Your kit is aftermarket (not original Ford stuff) and more of a universal fit kind of thing. That caliper looks like a GM one which they utilize in many of their kits. The hose and bracket are probably not brand specific and are also probably used in many of MPB's kits. I have a MPB rear disc brake kit for the 9" Ford under my '56 F100 and it uses Trans Am rotors and Cadillac calipers with an E-brake built in. The brackets for mine are then custom made to bolt the parts together onto my Ford axle. Your kit should have a similar fabricated bracket to bolt the calipers to your spindle.

[fordman]

if the hose is horter and the bracket wont bolt on you might have to make a bracket to use the current hose from them.

[FORDification]

Right, the bracket you got with your conversion kit will work just fine, as long as you can determine the best place to put it. Did the instructions that came with the kit give you any ideas on how to properly place it?

If not, I'd just hook everything up, including the flexible line from that bracket to the caliper, and then bolt that bracket to the frame in the same spot as the stock drum-brake bracket. Then just turn the wheels all the way to the left and all the way to the right, to make sure that you won't be stretching the flexible line. You might have to move the bracket to a different spot on the frame, but once you find the right spot that doesn't cause the flexible hose to be stretched, just bolt it down.

If you're using aftermarket pre-bent brake lines, the placement of that bracket will be easier to figure out, since it'll basically only go in one spot without bending those lines. If you're bending your own brake lines, the only critical part is making sure you have sufficient steering travel without stretching the flexible line.