If you’re planning to lift your Jeep JK Wrangler 3″ or more, it is important that you also plan to install a set of rear brake line extension brackets or better yet, install a set of stainless steel extended brake lines. Without them, your short factory brake lines will get damaged when articulating on the trail. Fortunately, upgrading your brake lines to a set of extended ones is relatively affordable and, as you will see in the write-up below, easy to do.
Jeep JK Wrangler Stainless Steel Extended Brake Line Installation Write-Up
actually a very helpful write-up.
a brake pad change would be good and or a E-brake adjustment..
lol!! an e-brake adjustment is on its way and i will try to do a brake pad change as well as soon as i can. 🙂
Hi Wayoflife,
If you could quickly give me your opinion on this please: I recently installed an OME kit on my 2dr and like most other JKs with the OME kit I actually got about 3″ of lift. Now, the guy at the ARB store who installed it told me brake line extention aren’t required and that they won’t break etc with an OME lift – but in the same breath told me he wanted brake line extentions on his JK with OME’s. WIth what is written above I’m having some doubts especially since the lines look pretty tight even on a flat. Have you heard about other OME’ers that installed extended brake lines?
Thank you
WOL,
you state,
“If you’ve just lifted your Jeep JK Wrangler 3″ or more (or are planning to do so), you will need to do one of the following: A) Install a set of rear brake line extension brackets or B) Install a set of stainless steel extended brake lines…”
Do you find that front extended brake lines are not necessary? I have the Teraflex 2.5″ HD budget boost, which has the 3″ coils up front and found that the rear brake lines are too short when the rear is flexed; I haven’t had the opportunity to check the front yet (I hope to do it tomorrow). Any help would be appreciated.
hi louis, i have installed an OME kit and can tell you that the shock lenght were just long enough to prevent the over extension of your brake lines. unless you installed shocks other than OME, you should be fine.
silver rubicon, did you install the brake line drop brackets?
wol,
yes, i have installed the drop bracket. when flexed, the rear brake line is stretched; but no one else has indicated a problem on the site, so maybe the droop is just enough to stretch out the line but not enough to break it….
Louis,
I installed the 2″ OME kit with OME shocks and the rear lines were very tight when flexed so I changed the rear ones. The front’s aren’t as bad and I’ve had it flexed many times with no issues so far. See pic: http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2761039850102055478bvkaHe
-Preston