Other than perhaps a little anti-seize I can't think of anything you would
put on them. New crush washers are easy to seat, they are dead soft copper.
After you use them a couple of times they turn into work hardened copper and
are
hard to seat. That's why they recommend new ones. In a pinch you can heat
the washer red with a propane torch and drop it in water. Unlike steel, that
will soften the copper washer.
keith
In a message dated 1/5/2006 12:08:07 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
roadster68@shaw.ca writes:
I gave all my existing brake lines and fittings to the shop. All that came
back screwed on fine and tightened up okay. I am fairly confident that the
proper fittings are on my lines. I did go fairly tight but just used common
sense when tightening. Did not want to go to far. I have stripped and
snapped off my share of regular bolts. I did not want to do that here. I
did find that I could reposition some joints to stop the leaks some time
back. I am surprised that this process is so finicky. I could not get a
good look at the nipple type seats in the brake proportioning valve. To
dark to get a good view. Thought about stuffing some of my kid's playdough
in there to get an impression but don't want to have to clean out that mess.
I watched one of those chop/cut/rebuild shows recently and saw the guy
putting some "goop" on the copper crush washers that make up the connector
at those brass block connectors. What did he use and why? Are the new
crush washers hard to seat? Larry.
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