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Re: [Healeys] brake pipe threaded ends

To: Tom <ah3000me@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] brake pipe threaded ends
From: Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 19:24:54 -0700
Sounds like the brake pipe is corroded to the fitting.  Soak with penetrating 
oil, and work the nut back-and-forth and 
hope it breaks free.   If you end up putting pliers to the brake line you'll 
probably nick it and it should be replaced 
(maybe try wrapping the pipe with leather or thick cloth).  If it doesn't break 
free and the pipe is damaged in any 
way--even slightly twisted--you need to replace the pipe.   You can fab a new 
pipe, but you'll need a flare tool and a 
tubing cutter.  Neither is expensive--good things to have in your tool 
collection anyway.

Making the double flare takes a little practice--buy 10' of brake tubing and 
the tools and give it a go.  There's some 
small radius bends on these lines; you can buy a tubing bender--again, 
cheap--or carefully bend by hand, around a pipe 
if you like.   Just don't kink or flatten the line.

Bob


On 6/18/2011 6:13 PM, Tom wrote:
> Bob,
>
> The flare nut turns; but the steel tube is turning with it and I can feel 
>that the steel line is starting to twist.  
> The nut will come out of the caliper, but I don't want to sacrifice the brake 
>line if I can't easily replace the brake 
> line.
>
> - Tom

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