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Hi Denise (and welcome) where-abouts are you ? Simon Baxter (aka Mr Brickyard) was selling these pipes ready-made,he's up in Wakefield I think.

Ian.

Here's Simon's site :- http://www.brickwerks.co.uk/

Denise,take it off and take it to a good motorfactors (NOT Halfwits ... bl%dy numpties !) They'll be able to take the ends off the existing pipe (or at least be able to replace with a new one of the same) and they'll make up a new one for you from Kunifer,flaring the ends correctly.

I put a section in ours when that went so I've not had the whole thing off ... looks like it's got to be 9 foot in total though,and a nightmare to route through outriggers and the petrol tank channel.

Cheers,Ian.

Hello, before you take off your old pipe check and see if it is necessary to renew the whole of it, most times the ends are perfectly OK, it's only the centre section or less that need renewing. I've just done mine using 1/4" copper pipe ( there's no great pressure involved when operating the clutch), I used two straight couplings with a slight smearing of 'Hylomar' around the compression olives etc. When I ran the new pipe through I used plastic piping as a sheath to cover the section that dissapears into the chassis.

Hope this is of some help.

PS. You may think the 1/4" olive will be too big for the 6mm pipe...trust me, it will tighten down.

YGM

Tex R

Hello Denise, I think you may be a little short on your pipe length, the only accurate way would be for you to get underneath and measure it.

If you can get 6mm pipe why not go the other (simpler) route and repair the middle section?

You can get the 6mm pipe at an agricultural dealer along with the couplings.

Tex R