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Billy, splicing in a new bit of brake pipe should be a pretty straightforward job for a garage if access is OK.

 

Otherwise, you need something like this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BRAKE-PIPE-FLARING-TOOL-4-75mm-DIN-BUBBLE-ON-CAR-FLARE-BY-POWERHAND-PH-BFT-475-/182680168196?hash=item2a88962704:g:gbAAAOSw~gRV3Cdn

 

And a few unions which are <£1 each from a motor factors. 

 

Cut the pipe flush with a little pipe cutter like this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rolson-Mini-Brake-Pipe-Cutter-3-16-Copper-Plastic-Tubes-3mm-22mm-Cutting-Tool-/122339125906?epid=538576762&hash=item1c7bfaea92:g:ikQAAOSw-0xYk0iM

 

Clean up the end with a small file, slip the union over the end then put a flare on the end of the pipe using the flaring tool. It's slightly harder work to flare the steel lines on the car than it is on copper but it's doable.

 

Use the same technique to make up a new section. 

 

Brake pipe is something like a tenner for a reel from a motor factors. 

 

It's probably £50 to tool yourself up but then you will have enough pipe etc for the rest of your life.

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Joining a brake pipe in situ is ok, but it's not easy to flare an original (steel) pipe while you're messing around underneath, they take a lot more effort than a new copper nickel one.

Also, when joining two pipes, never just use a male and female end screwed together, you need a joining piece in the middle for both pipe ends to seat properly against.

And by the time you've faffed about doing all that, you'll wish you'd just replaced the whole thing in the first place! 

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when joining two pipes, never just use a male and female end screwed together, you need a joining piece in the middle for both pipe ends to seat properly against.

 

 

 

 

Erm, wot?  You get 2 dies in the kit, op1 which gives a convex pipe end, and op2 which makes one end concave.  You fit the unions, give both ends an op1 end and then on the female union end, give it an op2 too.

 

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I have no idea what you mean by putting an extra bit of pipe in.

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Red Corsa is my lad's: new springs, strut tops and drop links.

 

Astra coupe: new ABS hub/wheel sensor/bearing/pads.Now need a FCR which covers ABS to knock the light out.

 

Vectra: new bush housing 'thing' on the back. More to do on that.

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Finally switched the gopping alloys off the Focus 'Collection' for the ones I took off a Mondeo Mk2 I bridged

 

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It's now in the Pasture of Profit (as if) next to the 170 and just yards away from the Pissat

 

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Erm, wot?  You get 2 dies in the kit, op1 which gives a convex pipe end, and op2 which makes one end concave.  You fit the unions, give both ends an op1 end and then on the female union end, give it an op2 too.

 

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I have no idea what you mean by putting an extra bit of pipe in.

 

 

I stand by my comment, it's bad practice to join a brake pipe by using male and female ends screwed together.  You should use a proper joiner in between two flares.

 

I don't know where you got your 'extra bit of pipe' from.

A joiner is steel.  The brake pipes you're making are invariably copper/ nickel.  You get a much safer joint butting copper/ nickel to steel (as per the joiner) than butting copper up against copper.

Manufacturers do it because their pipes are steel, not as soft as copper and there is no problem.  Soft copper/ nickel pipes are not good screwed together because they deform easily.  When you use a joiner, they deform as they should, into the correct shape.

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I actually forgot about this. Bought/sold immediately last week, it was (obvs) a weigh in job. I think the turbo had gone, CBA trying to start it.

 

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Also currently working on something truly and utterly dreadful.

 

 

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It's taken a couple of months to get round to, but today I moved this 20 yards (on my own) for the scrap man to cometh. Obvs. like it's fifty times worse than it looks in the pictures, and I had to try and start it in gear to free the brakes. Managed to push it about ten foot, then got some blue 'rope', tied it round the slam panel and the other end to my Transit to get it nearer the road for the scrap fella. Why? Why not, that's why.

 

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Still better than the other thing I've yet to collect.

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