Making up brake pipes

[Guest]

I couldnt get my hard brake lines from the calipers to the rubber hoses off without twisting them so I need to make up some new ones.

I was told better to buy the pipe/fittings and tools as Porsche charge the earth. I have 3/16" copper brake pipe and new metric fittings but I dont have any tools.

What do I need?

Pipe Flaring tool
Pipe Bending tool
Pip Cutting tool

Will this do the cutting and flaring?

http://www.justoffbase.co.uk/s.nl/sc.9/category.115/it.A/id.5275/.f

Will this bend the pipe?

http://www.justoffbase.co.uk/s.nl/sc.9/category.115/it.A/id.5272/.f

6mm is the smallest it does so maybe not small enough?

Any recommendations that wont break the bank!

Cheers

Andy

 

[Richard Savage]

Last time I had this problem I removed the faulty line, took it to my local Motor Factors, and they made a duplicate up for me. Cheap as chips!

R.

 

[dtunnicliffe]

Hi Andy,

I've just paid £150'ish for this job to be done by Neil Bainbridge over at BS Motorsport. I supplied the BF Goodridge high pressure hoses (£50 odd from Type 911) and Neil's lads did the fitting. They had to make up quite a few new fixed pipes - caliper to flexi union - these are the ones that tend to refuse to budge. Dropped it off one day and picked it up the next 'perfec Delboy' and the car got a service wash too. Rock solid brakes, firm feel great braking.
Neil tends to be a bit busy this time of year (Spa, Le Mans etc) but give them a bell.

Dave

 

[Jonathan Collins]

Hi Andy,The flaring tool looks like it will do the job, but I doubt it is worth buying the pipe bender as copper brake pipe is easy to bend by hand with care.Also I do not think that there would be enough room in that small length of pipe for you to pull the required bends.I personally took the same route as Richard and had my local motor factors make me two new pipes for 50 pence per end and 50 pence per foot of pipe.I have borrowed a similar flaring tool which I used to replace the rear section of a front to back brake pipe in situ and it worked well I think it was on a Peugeot 205 gti.I cut out the rusted section of pipe with a junior hack saw and deburred with a Swiss file, then spliced in a new section of pipe by using male and female ends.this saved me having to remove a lot of components that the rest of the pipe ran behind (especially the fuel tank). I am thinking that I may have to cut and re flare the rear pipes on my 911 when I upgrade to the braided flexible hoses as when I tried to remove the steel pipe it turned with the union nut, I have left them soaking in releasing oil and will try applying some heat but I expect the pipe to shear rather than come undone.Good luck.Jon