I apologize in advance, this will not be as thorough as I would like because I did the mod a while ago when I did my 4-Pot front brake up grade. At the time I was paying more attention to that and didn't get as many pics of the brake line install as I would have liked. I did take a few pics though that may help some.

First keep in mind that you will be getting brake fluid all over the place. Brake fluid will mess up paint. If you get any on the cars paint clean it off ASAP.

Some Stuff you'll need:

10 and 14 mm Flair nut or some people call them Line wrenches

Large flat blade screw driver - to pry the line clips loose

Pliers - to remove the clips once you get the clip loose.

Catch pan - to get the brake fluid that leaks out.

Brake fluid - to refill the reservoir when it comes time to bleed the brakes. I suggest a 32oz (946ml) bottle. More than you'll need but better that way then coming up short.

Brake Cleaner - to clean everything off when you are done.

If your SS brake lines didn't come with replacement copper washers, the ones that go under the banjo bolt at the caliper get new ones. These can leak if you re-use them.


Wheel in the air and take it off, to make it easier in the front turn the steering wheel so you can get at the back of the caliper. Follow the pics below.

My only watch out is the flair nut on the hard line ( the lines inside by the car body) can be tight. If you don't use the proper type of wrench (line wrench) you can round the nut very easily. A flair nut gives more gription (is that a word?) around the nut. Also don't take the clip off until you loosen that nut. The clip holds the hose end in a keyed slot that prevents it from spinning. If the clip is on and it still tries to spin, grip the hose by the metal part as lightly as possible to prevent it from spinning.


Peaty 11/22/02

Banjo bolt removal, Torque spec is only 13 ft/lbs when you put the new lines on:

Clip removal, I used a large screwdriver to pry it loose then grabbed it with pliers. Notice that all of the clip is on the one side of the hole. The clip slides in a slot on the brake line. In the picture below I made a mistake I later corrected where I had the clip half on one side and half on the other.

The tricky part

The rears are similar to the fronts, the clips are at diffent angles is all. After you have all the lines on you'll have to refil the resivor and bleed all the brakes. Have a look here:

http://www.scoobymods.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=182

Also one brake bleeding watch out for the rears incase you don't look at that link:

After I bled the brakes and cleaned off everything with brake cleaner, after about 5 minutes the rear bleeders appeared to be weeping fluid. There was brake fluid all around the bleeder and some running down the caliper. I tightened the bleeder, removed it and replaced it with one from my old front calipers but it kept doing it. Then it dawned on me. If you look at the orientation of the rear bleeders they tilt up. After closing the bleeder the hole in the center if full of brake fluid. The hole in the bottom of the bleeder lets the brake fluid escape slowly through the threads wicking it's way up to the top of the caliper via capillary action. My guess is this is common knowledge to people that do this all the time but it freaked me out. I bled the brakes, cleaned off everything with brake fluid cleaner, went in for lunch and there is fluid running down the caliper from the bleeder The bleeder is pretty long so there was enough to scare me. What I finally did was to bleed the brakes again spray cleaner in the hole then hit it with an air gun to clean out any fluid puddled in there. As usual I panicked for nothing

If you are doing a WRX and you get brake lines that look like this, the "T" on the SS brakeline must be removed before they can be installed. Mine were from Cobb and didn't have them.

Thanks goes to xstar for the pic:

I've been told the pic directly above is not properly labeled, it's not my pic so I have no way of being sure.

triguy has informed me:

"The photo of the ss brake lines you posted (above) on the last page of your instructions has the front and rear brake lines labeled incorrectly. You've got the fronts labeled as rears and rears labeled as fronts. The way you can tell the difference between the front and back ss brake lines is the hardware on the center lines for anchoring the lines in place. The rear lines have a large knuckle size retaining ring. The fronts have a plate with a 1/4-1/3" hole in it. "

end quote.

Thanks for the info.

Peaty 2/3/03

The last post here:

http://www.scoobymods.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1069

Is correct (the image is labeled wrong). Attached is a zoomed image of the front rake line in a WRX taken from the 2002 WRX FSM ("Front Brake Pipes and Hose", BR-8 in the Chassis book).

Check out this install page too, I did a better job here:

http://www.scoobymods.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=9562#post9562