All the remaining brake lines are now formed and ready for having the ends flared. I had no trouble making the front line in one piece, but was very surprised to find that I could not do the rear without having a join. It was impossible to have the rear pipe as I wanted without needing to bend it horribly getting it out of the frame again. I tried a number of ways, but always had to spend a lot of time re-straightening the tube. Hard to do with the line out of chassis, and virtually impossible to get it straight once it had been fed back in again. The join will be just rear of the transfer case cross member.
I found a suitable bracket for the front end, where the pipe joins flexible hose. It's still very rusty right now. When I went to use the compressor I found it laboring to turn over, so shut it down before it blew up. Off to the compressor repair people again, I guess. In the meantime, no sandblasting at home
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I made a rear pipe bracket, as per photos Jacques had posted, but realised I would need to drill another hole through the chassis wall to attach it to, so I made one that would use one of the holes already existing in the rail. The white color is etch primer, and the hose in the photo is one of my front axle to brake cylinder ones. I'm yet to buy the ones going from frame to axles.