Bendy brakey pipes

Post by **Pyoor_Kate** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 4:03 pm

Well, to be fair I've got the modified system with the whopping great reservoir under the bonnet. And *boy* did it make the process easier (assuming it's worked ;-) ). I hopefully have got it all done... Bending the copper pipe warn't too bad, mostly the gnarly bits were getting the old pipe off (brake fluid dripping down and difficult access) - and getting the flipping bleed nipple out of the cylinder.

Having checked i'd say my system could do with a thorough flush through with nice fresh fluid. I am not going to do that today however....

Post by **rayofleamington** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 4:17 pm

I am not going to do that today however....

Chicken! lol

Actually I found that the easibleed acts as an extra reservoir when bleeding (even if you don't connect air pressure), so you have a visual aid to prevent running out of fluid and also you have 3 times as much fluid to play with

The rear bleed nipples can often be a pain to remove so I got a 6 pointed socket for that (The 12 pointed ones can round them off if the nipple is very rusted). It's best to have spare (new) ones as I've found a few that wouldn't re-seal due to corrosion at the sealing area.

Post by **Pyoor_Kate** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 10:32 pm

Ray, ray, ray.

Ray, ray, ray.

Ray. MOT test tomorrow. Fiddling is for days when the mot test is a long time away.

Post by **rayofleamington** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 12:53 am

Well, to be fair I've got the modified system with the whopping great reservoir under the bonnet. And *boy* did it make the process easier (assuming it's worked ). I hopefully have got it all done...

Well I'm not sure how hard you thought it should be to change a rear brake pipe compared to a standard system but but I'm glad you found it easy (it should be pretty simple).

Ray. MOT test tomorrow. Fiddling is for days when the mot test is a long time away.

no pain no gain 8:
(says the man who was refitting front suspension at 1am on Saturday night so that I could get a whole load of other jobs on the car on Sunday

)

Yes - Ok. The day before the MOT is not the 'best' day to find that you've bled all cylinders but now one of the nipples wont seal

but that's what the 14 day free retest is for.

Alternatively, put the car in for an MOT with lots of faults to see if they find any extra jobs you didn' know about, then cram all the jobs into the next 2 weeks in mad panic mode (hmm - maybe Ray's MOT method is just for Masochists

)

Post by **andypocock** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 1:05 am

I thought I'd just stick my two pennyworth in.

If you use copper (and I would) you can keep it all very neat by bending the pipe around a suitably sized socket. This keeps the curves nice and even and reduces the chances of kinking the pipe.

Andy

Post by **Chris Morley** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 1:10 am

I used a can of Felix cat food to bend the pipe from the 3 way union to the front o/s (where it comes out of the engine bay, does a turn and joins the flexible hose).

Post by **Pyoor_Kate** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 7:33 am

Well, I used to do plumbing with me dad, so this was just like that only easier / being more gentle.

Thing is the only brake jobs I've done have been a bike (which has been *hell* every time (the MZ seems to have an amazing propensity to trap airbubbles somewhere in it's tiny little system), and Hebe, which clearly hadn't been touched for a very, very long time. So the idea of doing the brakes on Rebecca, even on a pipe that was a maximum of a year old, was a bit daunting. Especially by myself...

...but it went fine

I hope. If I come back weeping then we know it didn't, in fact, go fine ;-/

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