Since I swapped knuckles to put the steering arm in the front, the brake calipers are now in the back. The brake hoses don't reach the original hook ups to the chassis, so I had to move those:
Here is the line not reaching. You can see that as the wheels would turn the other way, the brake hose would get stretched:
Spot weld cutter to remove the bracket:
Clamp it 4 inches to the left and weld inside the holes:
I used a M10 brake union to connect the z shaped brake line that I bent. Since this mates with the Focus lines and hoses we have to use bubble flare here (not double flare like the clutch). The Eastwood flare dies did this well.
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