Front brake hose clearance issue with kingpin

[69f-100]

I'm rebuilding the front brakes on my 69 ford f100 2wd and am having an issue with the brake hose interfering with the kingpin on both sides. I put the old wheel cylinders back on and the hose clears the kingpin just fine. I went to another part store and picked up another set for the front and same problem as before. I don't understand what i'm missing here. It acts like the angle of the new wheel cylinders I'm finding at the auto part stores are not angled enough to clear the kingpin. Did they make a change somewhere that i'm unaware of? Can someone please help me with this?

New wheel cylinder:


Old wheel cylinder:


New and old side by side:

[Busboy]

Your brake line looks to be new. Are you sure it is of the same design as the original?

[jimmy828]

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[69f-100]

Yes, it is exactly the same as what I took off originally. I still have all of the old stuff to compare. The only difference I have found is the wheel cylinder, the older one is angled more where the brake hose screws in allowing it to clear the kingpin.

[69f-100]

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That's exactly it, I don't know why the new ones are not like those.

[cstoyer]

You could clean up your old wheel cylinder and do a rebuild on it. That is if the bores are ok. It appears the bodies are different at the port which is pushing the hose fitting into the kingpin so reusing the old body would correct the problem. Wheel cylinders anymore are really generic to fit multiple applications only in your case not that well.

[takehikes]

I just did this on my 68 and had no issue with clearance at all. Got wheel cylinders and hoses at NAPA.

[69f-100]

You could clean up your old wheel cylinder and do a rebuild on it. That is if the bores are ok. It appears the bodies are different at the port which is pushing the hose fitting into the kingpin so reusing the old body would correct the problem. Wheel cylinders anymore are really generic to fit multiple applications only in your case not that well.

Believe me I had thought of that, but unfortunately when I took them apart I found that they were both seized and I could not rebuild them.

[69f-100]

I just did this on my 68 and had no issue with clearance at all. Got wheel cylinders and hoses at NAPA.

I tried the ones from Napa, I had the same issue as the other two sets i tried. So that didn't work either, I really was only left with one thing to do and that was to grind some of the kingpin for clearance. It was the last thing I wanted to do, but I couldn't come up with another solution. I used carbide burr set and ground it down just enough for clearance. It actually turned out pretty good. I will post some pictures of what I did soon.

[69f-100]

Here are a couple pictures of what i did. It doesn't clear it by much, but it clears it. I didn't want to remove anymore than necessary.

Left:


Right:

[jimmy828]

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That's exactly it, I don't know why the new ones are not like those.

. I'm wondering why my post was deleted