How to Install Rear Brake Hose Brackets

Video Transcript

"DOUG JENKINS: Hi. I'm Doug. I work with 20 great guys in Saint Louis at Doug Jenkins' Custom Hot Rods, and we're going to do some work for you today on Expert Village. Next, Mark needs to install new brackets on the axle to provide a rigid mounting point for the brake hoses, the new brake hoses we're installing. Our rear end needs a rubber brake hose between the body and the rare axle, 'cause the axle goes up and down, and we need rubber hoses on this application to go between the calipers and the axle. So he's chiseling off the old little flexible steel hold-downs. Those aren't strong enough to hold the new style hoses in place, and he's grinding the axle to get it clean so he can weld the new brackets on. It's important to get everything clean before he does the welding. He's going to measure it to get everything squared and plum so it looks real good. He needs to get clean so that you can do good quality welds, and it looks good. Mark's installing the brake hoses in there, just kind of roughing them in to get an approximate length of them so he can get a good mounting point for the brackets that hold the hoses in place."