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A bubble flare here, a double flare here, and now we just got to put it in the old car.

Okay, so we've got this little adapter. This goes from the thread at the back of the handbrake, the inlet for the handbrake, to our 3/16 standard tube nut here. Now, this is NPT or national pipe thread. That means it's a tapered thread. So that means it gets thread sealant. And tapered threads are never going to bottom out like a standard straight thread fastener. Eddie knows.

All right, now we've got our line from the master cylinder into the car and into the handbrake. And I just plugged off the lower cylinder here that we're not gonna be using. Now, it's time to make a line that goes from the upper cylinder that we are gonna be using that will come down and split, it'll tee off, and then it'll go into the rear calipers.

So, these are factory lines. We're gonna be splicing into this one goes to the driver's side, this one to the passenger's side. And I'm just gonna cut them, kind of stagger it and run my tee into those lines to send hydro power to the rear brakes.

All right, so this is the final piece of the plumbing, I hope that everything is plumbed up, and we can put some fluid in it and bleed the thing. Now, obviously, this isn't super difficult; it's just time-consuming and a little fiddly, but it's not the worst thing.

It's definitely something that can be done on a weekend, and depending on your car's setup, potentially even quicker. This is taking more time because it's individual lines from the engine bay all the way back, but if it was a single line that teed off at the rear, it's even quicker, 'cause you can just go boom, one line in one line out.

I gotta be on a plane in a few hours, so really hoping for no leaks. Now we bleed. All right, I'm gonna start by bleeding the hydro, I'm gonna use my vacuum pump and pull vacuum on the hydro and all our new lines, and then pull fluid from our reservoir into all this stuff.

Then I'll also need to bleed the rear calipers. We'll probably need to foot bleed as well as this, but, just how it goes. No leaks, no leaks so far. All right, listen, this isn't gonna be your standard brake bleeding procedure. You've got the pedal like normal, but then you also got another master that you're gonna have to...

Yeah, so you'll pump up the brake pedal and hold it like normal, and then once you're holding that, then you'll just pull the brake all the way and hold it, then I'll bleed, then I'll tighten, then you'll relax.

(Pump everything up. Pedal first then handbrake. Pump brake pedal and pull the handbrake again.)

There we go, we got some fluid coming out. Okay, it's in neutral, right? Put down the standard e-brake and give me some hydro. Aye! It could definitely be stiffer. Yeah, I still gotta bleed from in there.

There's some... (indistinct). I just wanted to make sure it was working. All right, we got this sucker bled, now I'm gonna fire it up and see if the old stick does anything.

(Engine revving)

Okay, foot brake. Okay, let's see if the hydro works. Woo! Well, the new hydro works, and that is exciting. I can't wait to take this thing back out to the desert and use this thing for real. It's gonna make it so much more fun.

But unfortunately, I don't have time for that today. In fact, I gotta go get on an airplane. So that's gonna do it for us today, I hope you guys had a good time watching this video, and I hope you learned a thing or two.

I'll see you guys next Wednesday for another episode of Money Pit on the E36, and in the meantime, go follow me on Instagram @zackjobe, and follow Donut @donutmedia. See you guys in a week.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en(engine revving)- Last time we went to the desertit became quickly apparentthat the e-brake in the E36wasn't gonna work with me.I couldn't get my hand on it in time.So the question became,what do we do about it?We fix it, we fix the whole thing.(engine revving)(screaming)(lightning flashes)(playful music)Huge thanks to eBay Motorsfor sponsoring today's video.From experienced car enthusiaststo first-time Money Pitters,there's no better place to buyand sell your parts and carsthan eBay Motors.Not only do they focuson a diversity of people and inventory,but they're also focused on putting trustinto the automotive marketplace.eBay Motors also allows you toship directly through the appand you can even request alicensed third party inspectorto inspect the car you're interested in.Plus, with features like thevehicle protection program,and eBay's fitment toguarantee your exact parts,you don't have to worryabout getting scammed,which is really nice.So, start your trustworthycar shopping experience todayby going to the link inthe description below.And heck, you can get yourselfa sick E36 like we didon eBay Motors.Now, let's get back to the Money Pit.(playful music)All right, so as a quick reminder,we bought this 98 BMW E36.It's a 328i, and the ACactually still works.But we've been modifying it to bea fun budget-mindedoff-road rally inspired car.Now, of course you can drivea stock car off-road to some success,but we want this thingto be better than that.We want it to look better than that,we want it to be muchmore reliable than that.So we've been installing and testingdifferent rally inspired modifications,and determining whether or notthey've been worth all the time, money,and effort they take to install.And today is no different,we're gonna be doing nowthe hydraulic e-brake.So, let's get into it.If you watch any footageof professional rally or drift drivers,you'll often see him grabbingfor a lever that isn't the shifterwhen they initiate a slide,that's a hydraulic e-brake.And all that does is allowthem to lock up the rear tires,and initiate a spin ora rotation of the car.Now in drifting,that's usually aboutsteez and looking good,but in rally, it canoften be the quickest wayto get around a corner,especially like a hairpin turn.When you're driving on dirt,you really don't have that much grip.And so if you just try tosteer a really tight corner,you'll usually end up under steering,you kind of plow straight through.So the easiest way toremedy that is by installinga way to easily and repeatedlylock up your rear wheels,so you can initiate spin on command.So, that's what we're gonna do,that's what the E36 needs.Now, let's go take alook at what I bought.I actually honestly kindof bought the wrong thing.(chuckling)But it's gonna work.All right, so let's look atwhat we got and what you needif you wanna install ahydro e-brake in your car.First off the tools.We've got a flaring kit, sowe can flare some brake lines.And then of course, we'vegot some brake line.On the E36, 3/16, that's whatthey use or 4.75 millimeters,so that's what this is.And then we've got anassortment of flare nutsthat we'll flare onto the tube.These are how you connect brake lines.And so that all should be pretty easy.But the main thing you need,the piece de resistance,is the hydro itself.And this is where Ibought the wrong thing.At first glance when I bought this,probably really late at night,it seemed really cool.I was like, oh wow, twin cylinderso you don't have totee it after the fact,you just run your singleline into the hydro,and then you can run out toeach individual rear caliper.But that's not what this is at all.This is actually a cutting break.This is more for off-roading.So you can lock up anindividual rear wheeland force the thing tokind of spin around thatto turn tightly.I think it's gonna be okay.We're just gonna plugone of the cylinders,and use the upper one,and then tee it offlike you normally wouldwhen you install a hydro.But all in all, it shouldbe not too difficult.A little time consumingthough, so let's get going.So the first thing we're gonna dois just kind of sit in herefor a minute with the old hydroand kind of mock it up,hold it in some differentplaces, see what I think,keeping in mind I'vegot some interior bitsthat I would like to beable to put back in here.So, I think it's gonnabe something like this.This thing, as far as I'mconcerned, this can go.So, I think that's gonna go,and then we're gonnamount something like this.Maybe build it off a littlebit so it's out here.Cool.Well, now I need to golook at what kind ofmetal I have laying aroundand cut some up and make a little bracket.It should it be pretty easywith the tools I have on hand,I'm just basically gonnamake a little shelffor this thing to sit on,I think we go to something like this.And that should be plentysturdy and pretty easy.Let's do it.(groans)(metal clanging)Just chop a little pieceout of somewhere over here.All right, I gotta getthe plasma cutter ready,which means I need some airpressure and the plasma cutter.So I'm about to plasma cutthis eighth inch steel,which is pretty convenient for mebecause plasma cutting is pretty easy,it's pretty quick wayto get through metal.But it's definitely not theonly way to get through metal.You could make this bracketwith just an angle grinderwith a cutoff wheel on it,potentially a sawzall, bandsaw,there's a lot of ways to get this done,not just a plasma cutter.The plasma cutters arepretty cheap these days,so if you do cut a lot of metal,maybe think about picking one up.It's really handy and super fun to use.You're basically cutting metal with fire,and that's, I mean,I think we can all agreethat it's pretty cool.So let's do it, let's cut some.(groans)(upbeat music)(plasma cutter whistling)Okay, major piece cut.We'll clean it up a littlebit on the old sanderonce it cools down.(upbeat music)(sander buzzing)(metal clanging)All right, it's notthis was very difficult,I just had to cut out a little rectangle,and now we've got one cut out.And it looks like it's gonnado exactly what we want.I think what I'm gonnado is weld some studsto this rectangle we just cutso that I can just mountthis thing with nutsand not have to worry aboutgetting any hardware underneath'cause in at least one spot,that would be a really tricky.Okay, so I think I'mgonna drill four holeswhere I marked my spots for the e-brake.Drill holes about six millimeters in size,pop these bolts through,cut the heads off, weld them,and then I have four studs.(metal clanging)Cool.Now, we just grind those welds flushso it sits nice on the tunnel,then I got a couple of holes cut outfor just like little spot welds,and we'll weld kind of theperimeter a little bit as well.Should be plenty sturdy,we'll see if we even need to brace it.(grinder buzzing)(upbeat music)Okay.Now, we just gotta get ridof some paint in that areaand then we can weld.Coming right along.(grinder buzzing)Oh yeah, I think that's gonna be it.(welding machine buzzing)Oh yeah!Now that is sturdy.It's not going anywhere.Cool.Now we can run some lines.(upbeat music)All right, now we got the car in the air.So now it's time to trace our linesfrom the master cylinderto the rear calipers.So we're gonna find the linethat comes from the masterand goes to the rears.The rear line, the singular rear linecomes out of the masterand just goes straightinto like the ABS traction control module.So, to get to the individual line,to run to the e-brake like I want to,I'm actually just gonna bypass ABSand traction control altogether,which for the rear wheels,especially, it's fine by me.So I'm just gonna remove this line herethat comes out of the port onthe master cylinder labeled H.H is rear and V is front.So I'm gonna remove the linethat's going to the H port,that goes ultimately to the rears.So remove that and thenI'll make a new linethat just goes down, bypassesABS and traction control,and goes into the cabinright behind the handbrake.And I think I have all thefittings that I need to do this.So, let's do it.So, I've got this straight piece of line.This is six millimeter tubingwith M12 by one fittings here,with a bubble flare, a DIN/ISO flare.This is the European way,this a metric piece of brake tubingin that it's metrictubing, metric fitting,and the bubble flare is metric too.Generally, there's twomajor types of flares;there's bubble and then there's standard.Most American things will get standard,most of European things will get bubble.So that's what we have here.So this will be the piecefrom the master cylinderto kind of underneath the car,and then we'll make a linefrom underneath the car to inside the car.Now they do have,they do make specific toolsfor bending brake lines and small tubing,and when you know it, I don't have one.So, we're just gonna do it by handwith stuff we have laying around.I've got some dies right herethat are of different diameters.So, I can use these and justtrying to keep even pressure,trying to make sure notto kink these things,I'll just do it by handand we should be able toturn out a decent result.And then maybe down the road,I'll get the right tool, you know.(upbeat music)(paper crumpling)Woo! Line.This is 3/16, which isalso usable in metricbecause metrics step belowa six millimeter lineis a 4.76 millimeter line.And 3/16 is 4.75 millimeters.This stuff bends real nice,so I'm just gonna feed it through my hole.(line whistling)Satisfying.All right, so now that we'vegot our length figured out,we can remove the whole lineonce I cut through itwith my tubing cutter.And then we take it tothe bench and flare it.This comes with a flaring kit,it's a little chamfering tool.So we're just gonna hit that in there,get them burrs off.Now, before your flare,don't forget your flarenut or your tube nut.This has to go on firstbecause once you flare the end,it can't come off this way.Now sure, if you only flare one end,you can get it on from the other side,but don't live that life.Don't live like that.Put it on first, remember, then flare.Trust me, it's way more fun that way.Like I said earlier, this has a BMW,so on this car is a bubble flare.But the adapter I'm usingto go into the handbrakeis gonna be a standard 3/16.So on this end, we'll do a standard flare,on this end, we'll do a bubble flare.I just have to remember that.I just have to remember that.So, the first thing I'm gonna dois insert our tubing throughthis little grippy block here,these two Allens tightendown to grip the tube.The tube needs to protrudethrough this little block,a pretty specific amount.So you wanna line it up,I want it to be stickingout the same amountas the height of thatlargest diameter bit.So now this is our bubble die,this is for this size tubingand it's meant to make a bubble flare.So that's gonna go in there like that.Now we're gonna screw this unitover top of the whole situation.Okay, now, we just need todrive this screw down inand that will produce the flare.Okay, that should do it.And there we have a bubble flare.Now, we gotta do a standardflare on this side.Now we'll drive the top downfor our first operation.Now, that's basicallya bubble flare there.Now we're just gonna screwthis back on like so,and drive this guy in with no die.Okay, and that is yourmore standard double flair.So, that is basically a line made.We've got a bubble flare here,a double flare here,and now we just gottaput it in the old car.(upbeat music)Okay, so we've got this little adapter.This goes from the thread atthe back of the handbrake,the inlet for the handbrake,to our 3/16 standard tube nut here.Now, this is NPT or national pipe thread.That means it's a tapered thread.So that means it gets thread sealant.And tapered threads arenever going to bottom outlike a standard straight thread fastener.The threads in that taper iswhat ultimately stops themand you can overpower it.Eddie knows.All right, now we've got our linefrom the master cylinder into the carand into the handbrake.And I just plugged offthe lower cylinder herethat we're not gonna be using.Now, it's time to make a linethat goes from the upper cylinderthat we are gonna be usingthat will come down andsplit, it'll tee off,and then it'll go into the rear calipers.So that'll get some sealant in a minute,but for now, just stick it in there.Okay, so I'm just gonna leavethis line a little bit long,I'll probably put the teesomewhere up in this area,but I'm just gonna leave extra lengthand cut it from the insideand figure that out next.Okay, so these are factory lineswe're gonna be splicing into.This one goes to the driver's side,this one to the passenger's side.And I'm just gonna cut them,kind of stagger it and runmy tee into those linesto send hydro power to the rear brakes.All right, so this is thefinal piece of the plumbing,I hope that everything is plumbed up,and we can put some fluidin it and bleed the thing.Now, obviously this isn't super difficult,it's just time-consumingand a little fiddly,but it's not the worst thing.It's definitely somethingthat can be done on a weekend,and depending on your cars setup, potentially even quicker.This is taking more timebecause it's individual linesfrom the engine bay all the way back.But if it was a single linethat teed off at the rear,it's even quicker, 'causeyou can just go boom,one line in one line out.I gotta be on a plane in a few hours,so really hoping for no leaks.(wrench buzzing)Now we bleed.All right, I'm gonna startby bleeding the hydro,I'm gonna use my vacuum pumpand pull vacuum on thehydro and all our new lines,and then pull fluid from ourreservoir into all this stuff.Then I'll also need tobleed the rear calipers.We'll probably need tofoot bleed as well as this,but, just how it goes.No leaks, no leaks so far.All right, listen,this isn't gonna be your standardbrake bleeding procedure.You've got the pedal, like normal,but then you also got another masterthat you're gonna have to-- Also be bleeding.- Yeah, so you'll just,you'll pump up the brakepedal and hold it like normal,and then once you're holding that,then you'll just pull thee-brake all the way and hold it,then I'll bleed, then I'lltighten, then you'll relax.(claps)(Eddie speaking in foreign language)- All right, pump everything up.Pedal first then handbrake.Pump brake pedal and pull the handbrake.Again.There we go, we got some fluid coming out.Okay.It's in neutral, right?Put down the standard e-brakeand give me some hydro.Aye!- It could definitely be stiffer.- Yeah, I still got tobleed from in there.- There's some (indistinct).- I just wanted to makesure it was working.All right, we got this sucker bled,now I'm gonna fire it upand see if the old stick does anything.(engine revving)Okay, foot brake.Okay, let's see if the hydro works.Woo!Well, the new hydro worksand that is exciting.I can't wait to take thisthing back out to the desertand use this thing for real.It's gonna make it so much more fun.But unfortunately I don'thave time for that today.In fact, I gotta go get on an airplane.So that's gonna do it for us today,I hope you guys had a goodtime watching this videoand I hope you learned a thing or two.I'll see you guys next Wednesdayfor another episode ofMoney Pit on the E36,and in the meantime,go follow me on Instagram @zackjobe,and follow Donut @donutmedia.See you guys in a week.(upbeat music)