Brake lines all replaced, next step: check for leaks
In my last post about the Camaro's brake system, I wrote, "Maybe I should have just decided to replace the entire brake system from the get go". Little did I know. Having replaced one of the rear-axle lines, rebuilt the callipers and replaced the rear brakes, I though I was pretty much done.
...Until I took off one of the stainless steel braided lines to clean it out and found it had the same crystallized braked fluid in it that the master cylinder in. Basically, not matter what I did, I'd never be able to clean the whole system, and the only option seemed to replace all the brake lines.
The stainles ones were no problem -- just took them to Think Automotive (who did the Amazon's brake lines), and got them to match them. The front and rear lines weren't too bad either -- very fiddly, much neck strain from lying under the car with a pipe bender and cheapo pipe flaring kit (strangely satisfying, though).
The front-to-back line however was a different matter. First, finding somewhere in west London that stocked 1/4-inch cuniform pipe proved impossible -- but fortunately managed to get a roll at the Enfield Pageant the following weekend.
Next problem was getting the right brake nut to go in the side of the master cylinder -- put the old one down somewhere in the dark dim recesses of the lockup, never to be found again. After a couple of hours trawling the internet for a 7/16" bastard 24TPI male nut for 1/4 pipe had pretty much given up.
Fortunately Scott and Martin at American Car Care managed to find me one, so today I made the remaining flares (am I the only person who flares a pipe then remembers that I've forgotten to put the brake nut on?) thing together, bench-bled the master cylinder, and ...ran out of time. Hopefully, I'll get the whole thing finished early next week, if there are no leaks.
p.s. Thought it was worth posting w pic of the lockup, just to pove how little space there is.
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