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Old 15th July 2013, 03:26 PM
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Seen any suppliers for braided lines? Would be nice...

Those rubber pipes don't look fleixible enough for my brake pipe clamps....sure they will be.

Very jittery about undoing that flare nut...you're right: the pipe wants to turn with it. I'll soak in some WD for a while.

Thanks all,
Zip
Those lines do look tough but they'll clamp, i used a small G-clamp though i don't have Brembo's. I did look at changing the flex's too but the further back the car i looked it didn't get any better, so i cracked the nut and twisted the caliper, it's really awkward but worked. I heated the flare nut with something similar to this


I did end up borrowing a friends brake pipe tool to remake one of the pipes but it was a copper one not the flexi.
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