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Wedge tr8 clutch line, two possibility's?

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hi all, i recently purchased a braided clutch line along with a slave cylinder, wasn't sure which one was leaking,

the slave fixed the problem, thank you Wedge shop,

but now my confusion, did they make the tr8 with both,
1, a solid metal line going from the master to the slave

and/or 2, a solid metal line to a braided line,
and i just can't find where the braided line is buried?
any ideas, thanks tom
 
It comes from the master to a fitting next to the motor and then under to the slave .2 pieces.
Did you get the one piece line?
It's fun to fit.
I ended up using this on mine
BanjoFittings.jpg
 
i did get the one pce line, about a foot long, was not sure if i needed it or a slave. so now i have an extra part for just in case,
i love extra parts,
so where do i find the items in your picture?
and did you have to use them because you have a 80 tr7 v8 ?
or will a 80 tr8 use them also?

I love this site. Wish i could be on it more.
thaNKs tom
 
TR8's came with a solid line that was about a foot long that went from the master, under the brake master and then mounted onto an L shaped bracket on the firewall just inboard and below the brake master. From there, an 8" rubber brake line looking hose went from the bracket to the back of the engine.(these go bad) That hose attaches to another hard line that went down along the drivers side of the engine and passed behind the oil pan and attached to the slave. TR7s used one long flexible hard plastic line with metal ends. They will work on a TR8 as well but are too short to follow the same path that the TR8 lines originally went. TSI sells a braided stainless hose that works very well. It just doesn't have the 180 degree bends at the end which makes it a little annoying.
 
If you want a really slick set up, use two long braided hoses. screw them both into the slave(no bleeder). Then put the bleeder in the end of one of the hoses and attach the other hose to the master. Route them both back up to the master. To bleed, you open the bleeder and stick the end of the hose with the bleeder into the master reservoir and start pumping. Sure beats crawling under the car to bleed the system. That's an old race car trick.
 
Took a while to find the correct size of banjo. As Todd says it is a bit annoying how the ends are finished.So I improvised.
Forgot how the clutch line was actually done. Todd has it right.
Mine came from Ted.
The new line ,1 piece, goes over the bell housing to fit properly
 
The cheap easy solution is to take a TR7 clutch hose and melt away the plastic line with a torch leaving just the barbed steel line end pieces. Then take a length of braided hose and clamp it onto the ends. The line doesn't see any great hydraulic pressure, so the clamps are sufficient to seal the ends of the braided hose onto the barbed ends. I like to use DOT 5 silicon fluid in the clutch system instead of DOT 3 brake fluid because it doesn't harm the paint.
 
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