Help with brke lines

Just a qwik question. Should I run the brake line coming out of the maxter cylinder over or under the exaust pipe?

 

Uh... over the top, as close to the frame rail as you can get it... I'm assuming its a floor mount for some reason?

 

As far from it as possible no matter where.

 

If it must go within three inches of a header pipe, place a heat sheild between them. Just a chunk of tin on a bracket about three or four inches square.

 

I agree on this !

 

Yeah, it's gotta go over the exhaust pipe. For the reason, that if you put it under and had a dropped exhaust pipe, you're gonna get brake trouble, and fast. If it's under the pipe, you can also snag it on road debris, etc. And the heat shield is VERY important, as Ole Don pointed out. You don't wanna know what happens when brake fluid boils. Good luck...

 

Over/under? Explain.........what kinda funkiness you have going on?

 

Pic's?

 

It is a floor mounted MC. And I guess running the lines over the top with a heat shield is the way to go. Thanks guy's

 

i say wrap the line around the pipe 3 1/2 times and see what happens.... ( you really shouldn't listen to me)

 

Get it as high as you can and over to the frame as soon as you can. Any horizontal run in space is an open target for road debris to snap the line in two. A heat shield can often be designed to be a stone shield as well as a heat shield. Lots of stuff flying around under the car that can take out an unprotected brake line.