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Re: Help Please, brake line leak

To: Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Help Please, brake line leak
From: Lester <lewing@sport.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:34:49 -0600
.. and what flaring tool do the pros use??  I have gone through a few  
of the NAPA ones and I don't believe for a second that a pro uses one  
of those.. so..  who knows of a pro type flaring tool?

Lester


On Jan 18, 2007, at 8:48 AM, Peter C. wrote:


> Jack,
>         The line is actually 14" long. 3/8-24 male, and 3/8-24  
> female both with single, or "bubble" flares.
> Peter C.
> ====
> At 07:05 PM 1/17/2007, Jack Laird wrote:
>
>
>> Under close, and I meen very close instpection I have found the  
>> leak in the
>> brake line. It looks like someone sometime kinked the passanger  
>> side brake
>> line at the fitting where it screws into the three way brass  
>> fitting. Not a
>> break but a crack big enough that it leaks like a stuck pig.
>>
>> So guess what? I need that small tube. Should be the same on a  
>> Sprite or a
>> Midget. Again the tube that goes from the brass three way fitting  
>> around by
>> the shock to the flex hose on the passanger side, only about 9  
>> inches long,
>> twisted like a pigs tail, and has a regular male brake line  
>> fitting on one end
>> and a much larger female fitting on the other.
>>
>> As always help appreciated.




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