Our son bought stainless steel brake lines for his car that he and I replaced earlier this week. Well, we replaced (3) of the (4). All of them seemed to have some dirt build-up in the fitting but we got three of them cracked loose and everything replaced fine. Using a flare wrench too, by the way. After cracking them loose, while unthreading them, you can literally hear the dirt in the fitting being broken up as you turn so I suspect the one we can't get just has more dirt than the others and is "jammed". Out of fear of rounding off the fitting, we left it as-is for now. The other (3) corners went surprisingly well otherwise. Replaced the fluid with Pentosin LV at the same time too.
We did spray it with brake clean before starting each corner to try and get rid of dirt. Penetrating spray didn't help on this one either.
Any ideas or suggestions ? Worst case, he'd have to have a shop try and break it loose or even cut it off, add a new fitting and flare the line.
Thanks !
We did spray it with brake clean before starting each corner to try and get rid of dirt. Penetrating spray didn't help on this one either.
Any ideas or suggestions ? Worst case, he'd have to have a shop try and break it loose or even cut it off, add a new fitting and flare the line.
Thanks !