These Synergy extended brake lines are for the front or rear of your 2007 and up JK,
whether it be a two-door or a four-door, with up to 4.5 inches of lift.
Adding a set of extended brake lines like this is always nice when you have lift on
your Jeep.
You don't have to worry about pulling a brake line taught or breaking one when you're off-road,
especially when you have those sway bars disconnected and you're articulating.
This is going to be something that's very easy to install, a one-out-of-three wrench
installation.
Of course, anytime you open up the braking system, you are gonna have to bleed it out,
which can take a little bit of time, depending on your method, but still very easy, and we'll
talk more about the installation in just a second.
So, even some of the higher-end lift kits that are available will require you to straighten
out the bends in your factory hard brake lines in the front of the Jeep in order to get a
little bit of extra length so you don't pull those lines taught.
I always prefer to purchase a longer set of soft brake lines, rather than pulling on and
bending those factory hard lines.
So, this is going to be something that is definitely on my build list every time I install
a lift kit.
Now, there are a lot of extended brake lines out there.
They're going to be varying lengths.
Of course, the longer ones are gonna be a little bit more expensive.
These ones are gonna be a little bit on the higher side of the price range, even for a
brake line of this length.
If you like Synergy, you like the brand, you trust them, you want something that is high-quality,
I would say, go with these ones.
If you're on a little bit more of a budget, there are some less expensive options out
there, as well, that are certainly going to get the job done.
So, of course, this is going to be a braided, stainless brake line.
It has a Kevlar coating that's going to help make sure that it's not going to rub through
or, of course, burst.
All of the hardware and the fittings that come on these brake lines are gonna be zinc
coated to resist any sort of rust and corrosion.
So, they have a lot of very nice features with them.
They also do come with all of the clips, like I said, and everything that you need to get
them installed.
So, it's a pretty nice set of brake lines.
A lot of people are gonna wanna go with a set of braided stainless lines because they've
read or heard that you're gonna get a nicer pedal feel from a line like this, because
with a rubber line, you get some expansion, which can give you a softer pedal.
And, oftentimes, after you install something like this, you will have a nicer pedal feel,
but a lot of that pedal feel is probably just going to come from the fact that you have
some fresh fluid in the system, you got any possible air out of the system while installing
these, and less about the fact that the stainless doesn't expand.
That very small amount of expansion and contraction that you get from a rubber line isn't really
going to translate that much into pedal feel, however, once you go and get these installed,
you have some fresh fluid, you are probably going to get a little bit of a stiffer pedal,
which is going to be sort of a fringe benefit to installing a new set of brake lines.
So, for the installation, again, very simple, one out of three wrenches.
You'll have to disconnect the old brake lines, both at the hard line up on the frame and
on the caliper itself.
Make sure that you get rid of all the washers.
There may be a washer that actually gets stuck onto the caliper.
You don't want to double up washers.
You can end up with a brake fluid leak.
So, make sure that that surface is nice and clean, and free of those old washers before
you install these new ones.
You'll go ahead and attach the brake line onto the caliper, and also onto the bracket
up on the frame using the new hardware that comes with this kit.
Now, you are gonna wanna pay attention to the way that these bend on those front brake
lines.
If you install them backward, they will hit on part of the axle when you turn all the
way to the lock.
So, just make sure that you take note of how the old ones were oriented and install the
new, longer ones in the same way.
Once the brake lines are fully installed, then it comes to bleeding, and there are a
couple different methods for bleeding.
You can either put pressure in from the top of the master cylinder to push any air out
the caliper side.
You could draw a vacuum on the caliper to pull fluid down, and of course, also pull
the air out.
Or, the tried and true two-person method of having somebody sitting in the vehicle pumping
it while another person is cracking the bleeder to let air and fluid out on the caliper side.
Whatever method you choose, you'll definitely need to bleed out the system, and if you're
just installing these on the front, I would still recommend bleeding all four corners.
You always want to start from the corner furthest from the master cylinder and work closer.
Even though you didn't open up the back of the system, you may have still gotten some
air in there.
Worst-case scenario, you get rid of some of that old fluid, especially that fluid right
near the caliper that's been heated and cooled, possibly boiled, maybe has absorbed some water.
It can't hurt to get some fresh fluid in the system.
So, these brake lines are gonna run you right around $100.
They are gonna be a little bit more expensive than some of the other ones out there.
Like I said before, Synergy has a great name.
They make a very high-quality product.
I have nothing bad to say about these brake lines.
If you are on a bit of a budget, there are some less expensive ones out there that are
still gonna get the job done, but if you're looking for something that is incredibly high-quality,
you like the Synergy name, you're okay paying a little bit of a premium for it, these ones
are a nice choice, as well.
So, if you're looking for a new, longer set of brake lines for your JK, I definitely recommend
taking a look at this set from Synergy, and you can find them right here at extremeterrain.com.
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