you can make a join with pipe on vehicle even with sykes kit but an extra pair of hands helps with some big grips to hold tool ,theres nothing wrong in adding 2"or 2ft using male -female as join ,male been convex single op female concave double op
 
He did ask me not to use it on steel pipe and as its not mine I cant risk trying it.

Whats the chances of my el-cheapo tool making a simple female end on steel? If I'm doing an inline join I can put the conical female flare on the steel pipe and the male one on the copper??

Dont have any steel pipe to practice on but the female one is the easy onto make.
 
male end is easiest to do as only requires 1 op ,steels is hard even with sykes kit.can you heat old fitting it will boil fluid but it will be coming out anyhow,or replace pipe completely,copper isnt hard to fit
 
I'll try massaging the end of the flexi pipe with some heavy mole grips, might crack the seal, then heat maybe.

Need to get a new flare nut spanner first.

One pipe is easy to replace but the other takes a it of a route round the body.

Simple job eh!
 
Ok this is going beyond a joke now,

Bought a nice shiny flare nut wrench, and after beating the fitting between two hammers, the fitting came undone:)

So the plan was to undo the fitting, whip the spring clip off, pull the old pipe out and swap over with the new, all without losing too much fluid, sounds good:)

Gets the fitting off at last, finger over pipe, spring clip off, new pipe in and...

THE BLOODY THREADS DON'T MATCH :mad::mad:

The new pipe is metric, I'm guessing the car is imperial.:confused:

So I'm getting really fed up now, the new pipe fits all the stuff at the caliper, the caliper threads also match the old ones so??.

Is there a flexi with metric one end and imperial the other or am I going seriously mad? The flexi pipes were as listed on Paddock's site so what's going on?
 
I know but as soon as I mention upgrade, different calipers, home made pipes they clam up and won't talk !

But why don't the pipes fit? They were listed as correct, numbers on bags match, of course they are both dirty now so I can't return anyway.!
 
Hopefully salvation is at hand, well tomorrow anyway. A chum in the trade is going to knock me up two short pipes with a female 3/8 on one end and a male 10mm on t'other.

He reckons that they used old-stock imperial pipes and took the difference out in the little pipe that goes from flexi to caliper, I'm not going to argue with him as those pipes are definitely not metric.

I'll try cracking the drivers side off tonight, at least they'll both be ready then, fingers crossed.

Certainly missing driving the old girl:mad::mad:
 
I've had enough of this fecking job now:mad:

The pipes are all connected:) brakes bled ok:) fit pads and oh dear, Paddocks have sent me the wrong pins, they are the short ones for solid discs and not the vented kit I ordered. Hour and a half later after dragging round all the local parts shops and I have some new pins:)

Driving members fitted, discs cleaned and pads fitted, steering reconnected, what's that drip?

THE FECKING BLEED NIPPLES ARE LEAKING:mad: Two of the six are piddling out fluid, yanked them up tighter than I would like and still leaking, tools away, time to cool down:mad:

I will admit that because funds were tight, they are paddocks pattern calipers but these are a fecking death trap, do they not test anything? So I guess I now have to stump up another £200 on new AP calipers and the hassle with paddocks about getting my money back on theses bits of ****.

Not happy at all, two weeks now without driving her and the prospect of another week then changing calipers, Im ****ed off to be honest.
 
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