[NeighborsComplaint]

Correct, not your kit. I wouldn't be comfortable with a soft clamp pinching a rubber brake hose to keep it in place.

The provided tabs have a hex hole to engage the brass hex fittings and lock like factory so I will use them. I could fab new hard lines from the rear axle T all the way to the calipers but I had already bought the replacement hard lines before deciding to go with the disc conversion so I will shorten them.

It just seems dumb not to have the caliper brackets fabbed with tabs already in place. With a simple bend of the existing hard line, you could attach to the hoses and have a bolt-on install.

The machine shop does not want to turn the flanges down by clamping onto the raw forged section of the axle. They are concerned that the run-out will result in imbalance so they want to clamp onto the machined surface where the bearing now resides. I think it is overkill but I don't have a choice since they are the only game in town beside Opel Engineering ($$$) that can do this. I would have thought any place that machines rotors could do this but apparently not.

It is amazing that none of the so-called driveline, axle and driveshaft shops do not have the capability do this.