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    Part of the video series: Pt. 2: How to Install High Performance Brakes on a Custom Car

    From Quick Guide: ABS Brakes Guide

    Summary: Cut brake tubing during high-performance brake installation on a classic muscle car; learn how from our expert mechanic in this free auto-restoration video.

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    By Doug Jenkins
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    Doug Jenkins runs Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods in St. Louis, where he restores classic cars and creates mild to wild custom street rods. He races a 1972 Corvette in the SCCA...read more

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    "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. Our next step is to custom make a steel brake line. You can buy steel brake lines in a bunch of pre-determined lengths, but we need a custom length for this rear caliper steel brake line. So Mark has a nice, easy to use tubing cutter. He tightens it about an eight of a turn or a quarter of a turn, turns it around a couple of times until it cuts a little bit. It's a cutting wheel in there. You want to exert a little bit of pressure at a time. You don't want to try to smash it too hard. These are made by a variety of different manufacturers. I've never seen one like this red one he's using, but he turns it, turns it around. You don't want to cut it with wire cutters or any nippers 'cause you'll smash the brake line shut. You don't want to cut it with a saw 'cause you'll make a burr. This makes a nice, well-rounded cut, no burrs on it, real clean and straight."

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