My beast is an E reg (1988) 110 which originally had a petrol engine. It has no ABS.

I've been overhauling the front braking system: new pistons, seals, and pipe work. Whilst trying to undo to flexi hoses from their lower attachment on the swivel housings, I broke the brackets which (obviously) necessitated replacement. Part numbers FRC7202 and 7203. I then bought new rigid pipe to run from the flexi hose down to the calipers. Part nunmbers NRC7799 (LH) and NRC9575 (RH). General excitement of their arrival turned to confussion and frustration when I tried to fit them: with the flexi hoses mounted in the lower brackets and the rigid caliper pipes fitteded into the calipers, the two don't align with the bracket. The rigid pipes 'terminate' about an inch away from the flexi hoses, hovering inside the boundary of the bracket's triangular base plate.

Now I could just start bending the pipe and force things into position, but I'd like to understand what has gone wrong first. Have I bought the wrong parts (checked this many times!), could my bearmach pipes be the correct code, but wrong lengths, is there a different bracket for my '88 reg? I've been doing lts of digging and drawn blanks. I'm sure I have the correct parts after talking to numerous garages and suppliers, and looking on microcat at lrparts.ru.

Thoughts anyone? Many thanks,

[Frustrated] Ben

IIRC you can put those triangular based brackets on the wrong way around. I think I did and someone pointed it out when they saw a picture. I'll go and check my old rebuild thread and see if my memory is right.

I don't think you can. If I fitted the bracket on the wrong side the retaining plate that holds onto the brake disk mud guard wouldn't fit and the flexi-hose mount is too far forward (I think). If it IS that simple I'll be very happy.

Post a picture, I am sure I had to bend mine a smidge

OK, but it'll have to wait till mid week. Off to france with work for a few days.

Ta

Right, mate. It's taken some trawling through that thread to find the right page. Have a look HERE It's page 26 on the thread, I think there's a relevant picture on page 25 anorl. Hope this helps.