Topic: CB400F stainless brakes

[normalguy]

Hi everyone.  I recently changed to clubman bars, and when I was rerouting the brake lever, I noticed that the rubber up near the cylinder is cracked, exposing some of the white nylon(?) underneath.  The rubber seems pretty thin, so I assume it's not actually helping to hold in pressure, but it's time to upgrade to stainless anyway.

With the clubmans, the controls are a few inches closer, so one of the kits from oldbikebarn wouldn't work (and it's $150 anyway).  Does anyone know of an inexpensive online supplier for stainless brake lines in custom lengths?

In the manual it looks like the bottom line is banjo on both ends, but the top line going from the cylinder to the pressure switch junction looks like it has a banjo on one end and something else up top.  Any suppliers on that connector?  Is it standard?

[bryanj]

Top line is banjo both ends bottom line has banjo at top and special fitting at bottom. Buy a standard set and ask for a couple of "spare" olives then shorten the top hose. If you dont want to do that i can make up hoses to specific lenghts but the £ to $ is not in your favoour and air mail aint cheap either. Email me direct if you want a price.

[BobbyR]

Give a shout to HELUSA they did a great job on mine. Seach the forum for the url.