: Not another toy axle post!!! (this one's about brake lines)


squirrelman83
03-14-2002, 01:53 PM
Question about the toy axle brakelines mating to the Samurai line...

I've been reading several earlier posts (after searching) about toy axles and it sounds like they practically bolt right up. But I'm curious about the rear brakelines... After looking at AZ's website for a while I see that his was simple because he had dual rear brakelines on his Sammy already. Mine, however, is an '88.5, and therefore has a single rear brakeline. How do you mate a single rear Samurai brakeline to the two Toy axle brakelines? I was thinking you could use some type of T-fitting, but not sure. Anyone care to shed any light on this for me??? Thanks! ~Steve

Rockrat
03-14-2002, 03:44 PM
The rear toy axle that I have is hard piped from each drum to pass side T-block factory and then one single rubber going to the
weight dist. valve on the frame.so if you have the single rear line you should be in good shape

yagernc
03-14-2002, 05:07 PM
yupers ! i'll doubly conferm that. I was outside earlier removing the axles from the doner truck and just as mentioned only 1 rubber brake line.

On a side note i torched off the cool ebrake mechinism(s) to use on my zuke. I also removed the t-handle thing from the dash. I like the amount oh leverage it puts on the ebrake... Should be a real eash swap...

-mike

squirrelman83
03-14-2002, 08:19 PM
Thanks guys. I saw AZ's write-up and got kinda spooked for a minute. Of course, it is kinda hard to figure out exactly what is going on in just a picture. :D ~Steve

TNToy
03-15-2002, 07:21 AM
Yeah, all 4WD Toys have a single rear brakeline that goes up to the frame from a t-fitting just to the right of the diff.

The 2WD ones are the same, AFAIK. But they have a really funky and complicated parking brake setup... which doesn't matter, since it wouldn't match the bolt pattern of a front toy axle anyway. (2WD toy axles are 5-lug for those who didn't know)