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06-25-2014, 10:39 PM
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Issues swapping brake lines
I'm working on upgrading to stainless lines. For the life of me i cannot get the hard line loose from the stock lines
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06-25-2014, 11:29 PM
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One side of my car took like 15 minutes of careful blows to wrench. Never put it in brake video but it was an issue.
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Yea it was a bitch to loosen it. I sprayed WD40 multiple times and waited. Then used a vice grip to hold the metal part of stock line whilst loosening the nut with flare wrench. And prayed hard I don't strip the nut. It came loose in the end, but took abit of force, more than I expected.
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06-26-2014, 10:58 AM
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The most important part is using a proper flare nut wrench, not a normal open ended wrench!
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The chances of rounding off the nut are much higher with a normal open ended wrench than the proper wrench. I don't know what size, but you can easily put a normal open ended wrench on one of the nuts on the car to figure that out.
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These were a total PITA to change on mine and my friends' cars. By the last car, the method I did was as follows:
1. PB blaster and tap the bolts every 5 min for 40-60 minutes. 2. Use two vice grips to loosen. ... 3. Profit Forget the flare wrench, as that started stripping the head of the nut (which is why we went to vice grips). Just make sure your vice grips are on effin tight and are flush with the nut and check against stripping the head as you try. If its sliding, tighten the vice grips more and try again.
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Carefully use a torch, to heat the nut without burning anything else.
they come right off. mine were rounding off even with a flare nut wrench, after heating even though the nuts were partially rounded they came right off.
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^^ I had to heat mine too, just be sure to FULLY flush all the old break fluid out if you torch anything in the braking system.
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