Rusty Triumphs in Scotland
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Re: Rusty Triumphs in Scotland
Agreed on the torch!
You should buy a brake pipe flaring kit. It's simple to make your own.
You should buy a brake pipe flaring kit. It's simple to make your own.
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Re: Rusty Triumphs in Scotland
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...
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...
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Re: Rusty Triumphs in Scotland
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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.
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.
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Re: Rusty Triumphs in Scotland
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...
1976 Triumph Dolomite 1850HL - Field based greenhouse.
1977 Triumph Dolomite 1300 - Lean green oil dripping machine.
1983 Triumph Acclaim L - Japanglish daily runner.
1989 Volvo 740GLE Estate - Mobile storage unit.
1977 Triumph Dolomite 1300 - Lean green oil dripping machine.
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Re: Rusty Triumphs in Scotland
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.
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Re: Rusty Triumphs in Scotland
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.
They're at least a millionty billion times better than the Civic's calipers which were beyond fucked in all ways imaginable.
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1983 Triumph Acclaim L - Japanglish daily runner.
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Re: Rusty Triumphs in Scotland
Have you got a welder? I sometimes weld a nut over the nipple. That's sure to shift it.
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Re: Rusty Triumphs in Scotland
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.
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.
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Re: Rusty Triumphs in Scotland
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.
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.
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Re: Rusty Triumphs in Scotland
That's why I was asking the diameter. It doesn't look like there is 10mm left...