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Hopefully this will get you saabin' again:
If you are GOOD at making soft steel lines yourself, have at it. After screwing for countless hours with soft steel line, and not getting good flares, I had inlinetube (http://www.inlinetube.com) make mine. Another company is classictube (http://www.classictube.com). Here are the specs (for my '69 Sonett, yours should be about the same):
Every line on the Sonnet has one end with 3/8" - 24 Male with bubble
flare tip; and the other end is 3/8" - 24 Female with Double flare
tip.
There are 6 lines total, all of which are 3/16" diameter tubing.
The lengths are:
Front Right - 30" ( I think, double check this one)
Front Left - 11"
Right Rear (middle line) - 103"
Left Rear (middle line) - 83"
Right Rear to cylinder - 17"
Left Rear to cylinder - 17"
To have these lines custom built at inlinetube should run ~$60. IT IS
WELL WORTH THE MONEY!!! I spent over $100 on some line flaring tools
alone, and I'll never use them. I called inline tube, gave them the
above specs, and the lines arrived within a few days and looked
factory perfect. They did not bend the lines to SAAB factory specs,
but that's fine with me since I don't even see how you can install
many of these lines "pre-bent" without unbending them...Bending the
lines is not a problem for me, it's flaring them that results in
hours of futile efforts and frustration...
It took me a few hours to remove all the old lines, place my flex
lines in the right locations, and install all the new hard lines.
After a good brake bleeding session, my pedal is rock hard!!FINALLY!!!
btw, Paragon Performance does sell the flex lines for our V4 SAABS
individually (and in a set) for very reasonable prices (in case you happen to strip the threads on one like I did) (http://www.paragonperformance.com)
As far as the rotors are concerned, they are available from http://www.thesaabsite.com. I've never ordered from them, but I plan to!
Good luck,
-Chris Floyd
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