This weekend I had to replumb my front hard brake lines (long story, don't ask). I bought a 8' length of double flared brake line for the passenger and went to work bending/installing it. Took me over an hour to get the bent and secured correctly.
Then when bleeding the brakes, it would not seal at the proportioning valve. I cranked it down harder and harder (no luck) until I stripped the nut. Yes I was using a flare wrench.
I don't want to replace that whole line. I want to chop a part off, get a male to male adapter and make a short "jumper" from the prop valve to the adapter. When I last did hard brake lines (in the 90's) I used a double flaring tool set from Naval Station San Diego's Auto Hobby shop but it kinda sucked.
Doing a quick search on the interwebs I see:
https://www.amazon.com/ABN-Double-Fl...e+flaring+tool is their best seller and has decent ratings.
I also see:
https://www.harborfreight.com/double...kit-66534.html is a little cheaper but has terrible ratings.
My questions:
A) general advice?
B) Any better ideas?
C) Tool ideas? Does anyone know if Oreilly, Crapa, Autozapper, have these as loaners?
D) I know there are tool sets that are $200+ that I am sure would do a wonderful job but I don't have that kind of money to spend on my Jeep.
Then when bleeding the brakes, it would not seal at the proportioning valve. I cranked it down harder and harder (no luck) until I stripped the nut. Yes I was using a flare wrench.
I don't want to replace that whole line. I want to chop a part off, get a male to male adapter and make a short "jumper" from the prop valve to the adapter. When I last did hard brake lines (in the 90's) I used a double flaring tool set from Naval Station San Diego's Auto Hobby shop but it kinda sucked.
Doing a quick search on the interwebs I see:
https://www.amazon.com/ABN-Double-Fl...e+flaring+tool is their best seller and has decent ratings.
I also see:
https://www.harborfreight.com/double...kit-66534.html is a little cheaper but has terrible ratings.
My questions:
A) general advice?
B) Any better ideas?
C) Tool ideas? Does anyone know if Oreilly, Crapa, Autozapper, have these as loaners?
D) I know there are tool sets that are $200+ that I am sure would do a wonderful job but I don't have that kind of money to spend on my Jeep.
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