Joining brake pipe --Question

[Alzey]

I promise I have had a good read first and a number of members have had similar probs, the problem in a nutshell is the offside brake pipe where it joins the flexi pie under the drivers door has fractured and split. This pipe runs via various kinks and angles across to the other side of the van where it joins a three way splitter. I have taken out the pipe at this splitter no problem and released the pipe from the plastic clips as well all no problem. I would think that this is the original from 1988. Now it seems almost impossible to get this pipe out so I can get it on the bench to copy it and put on flares nuts etc. but, it looks like I would be better off to cut in a convenient place and get the pipe out in to smaller pieces. (x2)

Or do I get the original piece out by straightening some of the kinks and hope I can replicate it and then get back in, frankly looks like bob hope and no hope of achieving that whilst laid flat on my back on the crawler.

I have got a brake flaring kit and having had a good practice for a couple of hours (+tuiton from Youtube) feel confident about making it. How did you guys get the pipe out or did you cut it and join it ??

Sorry if this seems a bit elemental to you spanner gods but this level of spannering is a bit new to me ( I was always the bloke who held the spanner and made the tea and legged it to the shop to get the parts) and now I'm learning somthing every day. 40 years wasted behind a desk !!!

Thanks
Al

[ghost123uk]

You need to do it in one piece. Brake pipe is easily bendable, it's designed that way, so fitting the new bit isn't that hard to do.

[Wychall]

Cut the old pipe to remove it. Make the new pipe roughly to shape using copper or Kunifer. Reinstalling in one piece will be easier because, as John says, the new pipe is far more flexible.
Good luck.

[Alzey]

Thanks gents done as you described and quite right a lot easier than I imagined with the copper pipe. When the calipers are finished and I get to bleed the sytem (note to self: start applying easing oil to rear nipples now) I'll be intrigued to know if my flaring is brake fluid tight.

Learning something everyday...

[Dazco]

Nice one , I ended up cutting mine to remove it then flared one end of the new one and left it long. Bent it etc to shape the cut it to length and flared it in position .

[AdrianC]

When the calipers are finished and I get to bleed the sytem (note to self: start applying easing oil to rear nipples now)

If they're THAT seized, then the fluid's clearly not been changed regularly, so gawd knows what state the inside of the cylinders will be in. Might be as easy to just change 'em straight off, rather than fanny about then admit defeat and change 'em.