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Replacing rear brakelines
- Thread starter Eisenherz
- Start date
oblivion_twister
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Rio Rancho NM
don't force it or you'll be buying new wheel cylinders and more lines.
Matthew Currie
NAXJA Member #760
- Location
- Vermont, land of big clay
First, make sure you've got the right lines, since metric fittings come in nearly the same size but will never go in.
Assuming the right lines, the fittings still very sensitive to crooked installation, and the stiff lines combined with the awkward angle you're working at can make it difficult to see when they're not straight. Keep trying, don't force, and eventually you'll get it.
Assuming the right lines, the fittings still very sensitive to crooked installation, and the stiff lines combined with the awkward angle you're working at can make it difficult to see when they're not straight. Keep trying, don't force, and eventually you'll get it.
- Location
- Rainy side of Washington
This.
The metric ones will go in a turn or so and then stop.
Please don't ask how I found this out :eye:
ParadiseXJ
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Paradise, CA 95969
I like to clean out the female side in the back of the cylinder with a little wire brush, like a .22 caliber cleaning brush just to sharpen up the threads. There's usually goop & rust in and around there.
...and X2 on the odd angle, until you can make it go straight in, it won't.
...and X2 on the odd angle, until you can make it go straight in, it won't.
^^How'd you find that out?
- Location
- Rainy side of Washington
By spending approximately 20 to 30 minutes attempting to thread it in, in 20 degree weather, cursing my head off, before reading the label on the piece of preflared brake tubing and realizing it had metric fittings.
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