Guys (& gals) I need a little help. I'm helping out a friend who had a "friend" that was helping them fix a rusted and leaking brake line.

By the time I came in the picture to help mentor this kid and teach him to turn a wrench, I look under the truck and see that this other "friend" had cut both of the steel lines from the front of the truck going to the LSPV in two different places and then left after connecting two steel lines that were too short with compression fittings

Isn't that illegal in most states?? (the compression fittings, not the short lines

) We have no way of knowing which line went where and he said it didn't matter which one

As far as I knew, you had a pressure line and a return line right?
Any way there is an F stamped on the LSPV where the top brake line attaches and an R on both the other two. The middle one goes to the T and then to the rear wheels. I need to know which line goes where. We have pumped the brakes and know which line is the pressure line but don't know where it attaches to the LSPV.
I have hunted all evening and come up with nothing.
Any ideas?