[ROVERNET - UK] Brake flares and fittings

[Vern Klukas]

Mostly the flares are girling "bubble" flares. The only exceptions (I 
think, it has been a while) are std single flares on early car metal 
brake reservoirs and all cars at the ends joining to the flexible 
brake hoses (three places) and a joint in the pipe that serves the 
rear brakes.

The bubble flares are very difficult to obtain tools for, the best in 
North America is an "iso bubble flare" tool, which has the correct 
form but is for metric sized tubing. They work fine on imperial sized 
tubing, though you'd be best off to practice 15 or 20 at least on a 
scrap before you start shortening your good lengths of tubing with 
errors.

Yours
Vern




>Geff,
>     I'm guessing that your car is a single circuit
>brake system with just one booster, right?
>     All the prefab brake pipe kits seem to cater to
>single circuit cars, as the dual circuit brakes were
>(I think) only used in the US & Canada in '68, '69,
>'70, so there's a relatively small market for dual
>circuit style brake pipes. 
>       Can anyone tell me the type of flares used in
>this car?
>
>Nathan
>
>--- geffandjulie <geffandjulie at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>  I found a UK company that sent a complete set of new
>>  brake pipes, which I
>>  installed with minimum bending needed. First time
>>  amateur effort, and
>>  miraculously the car stops when asked. I can
>>  probably find the box which has
>>  the name, but Pierre or Jonathan will know
>>  immediately.
>>  Geff and Julie McCarthy
>>  AvMedSafe
>>  503-241-8468 home
>>  503-799-3809 cell
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>  From: "Nathan Obuch" <nathanobuch at yahoo.com>
>>  To: <rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com>
>>  Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 6:43 PM
>>  Subject: [ROVERNET - UK] Brake flares and fittings
>>
>>
>>  > Greetings, Rovernetters
>>  >
>>  > I'm finally getting back into repairing my '69 P6
>>  > 2000TC (with dual circuit brakes) and need
>>  undertake
>>  > one of my least favorite automotive restoration
>>  tasks-
>>  > replacing corroded brake lines.
>>  >    What kind of brake flares does this car use?
>>  > (Double? Bubble?) There's a mix of male threaded
>>  > fittings and female threaded fittings on this car,
>>  so
>>  > I imagine I'll need to be able to do two styles of
>>  > flares.
>>  >    Does anyone have a particular brand/model of
>>  brake
>>  > flaring tool they recommend?
>>  >
>>  > Thanks in advance,
>>  >
>>  > Nathan
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >
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