HEL brake lines

[icenian]

From previous threads, HEL brake lines seem to be favoured. Anyone care to put me right before I spend my money?

And what a choice of colours...

Red hose and gold fittings?

Neon blue hose perhaps

Maybe I should go retro and have clear hoses and black fittings...

Anyone seen the "carbolook" hoses? They have to be innapropriate for a slow old boat like an AT, but I'm curious!

[DaveS]

I've been umming and ahhing about the HEL sets on eBay for the AT.
About £50'ish to do the rear as well IIRC.

[mal]

I put HEL brakelines on the front of my 94AT a few months ago.cost was about £50 pounds, easily fitted ,came with new banjo bolts and washers i had trouble bleeding them until i used a pressure bleeder, they come in lots of colours mine are just plain stainless they are also guarenteed for life.

[icenian]

Cost is 58 pounds from http://www.h-e-l.co.uk; there are suppliers on ebay that are cheaper, but it depends on availablity for an AT.

The kit listed on the HEL web site also states Single Front And Single Rear Brake Line, which has got to be wrong. Would have thought they're more likely to have the web site description wrong than the brake line kit; but in that case the cost could be wrong too. e.g. a Speed Triple kit is over 100 pounds, with 3 front brake lines, which would be about 25 quid per line; that would make a single front & single rear kit about 50 pounds, but suggests that a twin front & single rear like an AT needs should be about 75 pounds...

[gibbo]

If its any help:
The HEL front set-up has 2 lines from the master cylinder, 1 to each of the front calipers. The Goodridge set-up has 1 line from the master cylinder to a "T" junction, with 1 line going to each caliper.

I would imagine that the front lines are sold as a complete set, rather than individually.

[mal]

The kit i put on my AT consisted of 2 single brake lines,3 banjos and enough washers to install, the banjo that connects to the master cylinder is extra long and connects both brake lines

[icenian]

The kit i put on my AT consisted of 2 single brake lines,3 banjos and enough washers to install, the banjo that connects to the master cylinder is extra long and connects both brake lines

That's what I'd been lead to expect from HEL.

Do you think that when they say single brake line they mean there's the one line between each caliper and the master cylinder, as opposed to a splitter? If so it's a daft description!

[icenian]

The kit listed on the HEL web site states Single Front And Single Rear Brake Line, which has got to be wrong.

than man from HEL says:
Apologies but we haven't updated the site for the newer twin disc model yet but we do have the spec - £58.00 for the front

Erm, is there a single disc version of the Africa Twin?

[icenian]

In the end the best price I got was 44 pounds (incl. delivery) for Goodridge brake lines, from wezmoto.

This was front brake lines only, so that's a saving of 14 pounds over HEL.

A full Goodridge kit would have been 12.50 more, but I'm not bothered about the rear.