[Tom Wesenberg]

You don't need to rent a tubing bender. As mentioned, the new brake line can be bent by had without kinking, unless you go too tight a radius. I didn't like the tight radius of the small tubing bender I bought from O'Reilly for $3.50, so I made my own bender out of 2 1/2" aluminum rod. For my 50 Studebaker I needed a couple larger radius bends for the new steel line for the vaccum advance I installed a couple days ago. I replaced an ugly copper line that was hand bent.

I used my homemade bender for the tight bends around the front of the head, and I used a couple different size V belt pulleys for the two large radius bends around the carb. V belt pulleys make great benders for several sizes of steel and copper lines. I keep an assortment of pulleys in the basement. You can buy them cheap at swap meets and garage sales.