I am about to install cruiser coils in the rear and have read that there have been some problems with the brake lines and wondering what people have done to solve this. Is the stock line long enough? All pro? Marlin? something else?

 

I'm going to be installing my cruiser coils this weekend. I ordered a new brake line from marlin just to be safe.

 

I got a new stainless brake line for the rear, but if your not changing out the oem shocks then I think they limit the rear enough not to bother the rear brake line. Before I swapped my rear line I had the cruiser coils in with no problems to the brakes.

 

i got stainless steal extended brake lines for the front and the back. (don't need them for the front, they're way too long now) as for keeping the stock shocks, from my experience, when i put on my FJ80 coils, they were way too short. they were pretty much hyperextended (could only be pushed down when goin over bumps) so it made for a very rough ride. thankfully i only had to drive around like that for 2 days.

 

did you guys go all pro, marlin, or some other option for the brake lines?

 

I went pro comp, but later found out they buy their brake lines from earl's brakes....don't know. It's some performance place. Do a search cause there's a place that sells the set I bought for much cheaper just in a different package.

 

how much were the pro comp lines?

 

You ABSOLUTELY have to change the brake line!!!!!!!!! The stock one isn't anywhere close to long enough. Buy the blue one from Marlin. That is what I used and it worked great. You will have to grind out the center of the stock retaining clip with a dremel tool or a round file to fit over the end of the new brake line but its not that much trouble.

Are you planning on adding a pan hard drop bracket?? You're going to need it with the Cruiser coils. They give you ALOT of lift. Have you already tried getting your lateral control rod bolt off?

I love the cruiser coils, can't wait to try them out off road.

Let me know if you have any problems during the install.

Edit...if you haven't already installed the ball joint spacers, the cruiser coils will lift up your rear end so much your truck will look it should be running the quarter mile.

 

I got the marlin line.

 

hahahahahaha its so true!!! so much rake to it!!!

i went with procomps ss brakelines. no modification needed.

but now a year after i put my FJ's in, i now have gotten my hands on another set for free. so im gonna swap out the short side thats in there now for a long side and get rid of that little lean. not very noticeable, but my 33's only rub on the shorter side in the front

 

That's funny, I put the longer spring on the driver's side (because I am heavier than a full tank of gas so I figured if I'm the only one in the truck the longer spring on the driver's side should compensate) and that is the side that the 33s rub the worst! I don't have any body lift and I haven't pounded the pinch weld flat yet so once those things are done I hope the rubbing will be gone.

 

not sure....I just know that my 4runner with the stock shocks did just fine with the factory brake line in the rear until I could get a longer ss one. The stock shocks limit the fj coils and won't allow the rear to go far enough to rip the oem brake line. If you've got other shocks then disregard this post.

 

I'm not sure exactly which Land Cruiser model the Cruiser Coils I put on came from but with mine, you wouldn't be able to use the stock rear brake line with the truck just sitting in the driveway without ANY shock absorbers let alone flexing the axle offroad!! That is how much lift I got out of the Cruiser coils.

 

so you have the long side on the driver's side then?
i have my long on the passanger side cause i thought most of my weight was up front and the gas tank weight is in the back with the coils. so does you're lean if you look at the back then?

 

With a 4 foot level on the ridge of the tailgate just below the window, the bubble breaks the line by about 1/8" so, yes it leans but you can't tell by looking at it

Check out the photos here (go to post #43):

https://www.yotatech.com/forums/show...670#post597670

 

yeah, you can't see my lean, unless you actually take a good long look at it. i would say mine is closer to a 1/4 to 1/2 inch though. i think i measured it once it was done.

can i have your bumper?

 

Which one? You like?!?!? Lets see Toyota wants $450 for a new one and I got it used for $10 I think not including shipping.

After Cebby get his pipe bender put togther and starts fabbing rear bumpers for the 2nd gen, I'll give it to ya for the shipping cost.

 

no no no, your ARB, for free?!?!?!

 

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhhh let me think.

 

hahahahahaha NUTS!!! one of these days that will work!