Half way there with the front calipers on, plus some new wheel well liners that I Cerakoted:
The wheel well liners were the fussiest part. Speed bleeders FTW! I didn't have to hook up air pressure to my bleeder kit at all, just used the tight fitting hose end over the SB nipple and pressure from the brake pedal.
Now for the bad news. Odds of me
easily getting the stainless steel lines from Z1 on are next to zero, because the existing fittings look like this:
I did put a flare wrench on it just to see, but good odds I would have to cut out and replace the whole brake line. This is an 18 year old truck, so I am going to POR-15 it away from the threads and just watch it. Little disappointed after going all stainless lines on my motorcycle, but oh well.
Truck is already way smoother with new calipers over the old, which looked like this on the outside:
Really good news: brake fluid did not craze the paint at all (I flushed everything immediately, but have seen brake fluid damage non-clearcoated paint right away), and it appears solid after initial 50 miles of driving. I put ceramic coating on it so should stay pretty clean. The tow hook has been up and down California including dirt roads and ~400 miles down the central valley through bugs and highway rocks, and nothing has dented this paint yet.