Rusty Triumphs in Scotland

[CLINT]

Agreed on the torch!

You should buy a brake pipe flaring kit. It's simple to make your own.

[captain_70s]

Cheers for the advice Mr Honda.

Wish I could buy a brake flaring tool but funds don't allow. I should have bought one years ago back when I had money but that was during my "spend £200+ at the strip club on a night out" phase...

[fried onions]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sykes-Pickav ... SwgKtc2Fuh

If you get really stuck you can send your old pipe with unions to me and I will make you a new one, but obviously it would be a week before you got it back.

[captain_70s]

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Totally fucking fucked mate. Big time.

Copious amounts of heat did not avail me of my brake woes. Indeed it merely caused more woes as it cost monies I don't have. I did also find a local motor factors who sold me some brake caliper bleed nipples and said they could make brake lines to order if I supplied the Imperial unions.

A mate is coming over tomorrow to help me bleed the system via the flexi-pipe join, hopefully in a less barely functional manner.

If I can get the brakes functioning properly I'll just pretend the whole ordeal never happened until I can either afford a new caliper or dare to attempt to drill out the remains of the bleed screw...

[Hooli]

Tokico explains it! I believe that's the same make as the front calipers on my GSX & they rot so quick I have to rebuild them every six months as the white crystal growth pushes the dust seals out till the pistons jam.

[captain_70s]

They are actually not too bad all things considered. Judging by the yellow paint on the bolts which matches various other bits of the car I reckon they've been on there since the car rolled off the production line!

They're at least a millionty billion times better than the Civic's calipers which were beyond fucked in all ways imaginable.

[CLINT]

Have you got a welder? I sometimes weld a nut over the nipple. That's sure to shift it.

[Eddie Honda]

What diameter is that mangled hex?

It's one thing heating it, it's another gripping the bastard tight enough. I'll demonstrate what I mean in a couple of days when I have my shit together.

Any why are the unions Imperial? Even the Allegro was metric.

[Drum]

I have a set of these somewhere
https://www.toolstation.com/irwin-bolt- ... set/p63045

If (and that's a big if) I can find them, I'll post you the 10mm one. It might grab it.

[Eddie Honda]

That's why I was asking the diameter. It doesn't look like there is 10mm left...