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I melted the brake line, need to fix it.


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MIG'd the bulkhead and ended up touching the brake line.

How and what is the best way to replace this. I have thought that a quick cut, add rubber line and clamps to suit will work.

Feedback plz.

You are kidding right? Rubber hose will both dialate, and blow off under braking.

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What length of line did you fuck?

If you only melted a couple of centimeters I would grab a line joiner from BNT and a couple of fittings and just cut the fucked bit out, get the ends of the line flared and join it.

-Or if you know of a stuffed Leone/Brumby or possibly first gen Legacy they have a few of those joiners in the engine bay from factory.

brakeline_joiners.jpg

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Now that is BLOODY awesome to know?!!! I'm going to put two of them threw my fire wall from my bias pedal box and 1 behind my drivers seat will make assembly so much easier! Chur bow

Didn't Mushi include the bulkhead fittings with the pedal box?

This is how we set it up:

brakew.jpg

There cheap as from BNT too.

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What length of line did you fuck?

If you only melted a couple of centimeters I would grab a line joiner from BNT and a couple of fittings and just cut the fucked bit out, get the ends of the line flared and join it.

-Or if you know of a stuffed Leone/Brumby or possibly first gen Legacy they have a few of those joiners in the engine bay from factory.

brakeline_joiners.jpg

Awesome!! That is exactly what I'm after. I just touched the tip of the welder to the line so about a 2mm split.

Removed the lines, took into BNT and cost <$25 for the joiner, nipples and flaring. Just needed to add some brake fluid and bleed. Hopefully lesson learnt.

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Now that is BLOODY awesome to know?!!! I'm going to put two of them threw my fire wall from my bias pedal box and 1 behind my drivers seat will make assembly so much easier! Chur bow

Didn't Mushi include the bulkhead fittings with the pedal box?

This is how we set it up:

brakew.jpg

There cheap as from BNT too.

Yeah boe he did, but im running the line inside the car to the rear and iv got two penatrations / tight turns were if i had one of these couplings it would be hell lot easyer to pop in and out, trying to make the car easy to assemble/diss assemble for race emergancies etc.

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FYI: A panic brake stop can put 1,200 psi or more of pressure in the line - hence the unsuitability of ordinary rubber.

:D

WRT repairing your existing line - it sounds like it is pretty close to the firewall so it might be a mission to get the flaring tool in there so pehaps removal and replacment would be the quickest and best long term fix.

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What length of line did you fuck?

If you only melted a couple of centimeters I would grab a line joiner from BNT and a couple of fittings and just cut the fucked bit out, get the ends of the line flared and join it.

-Or if you know of a stuffed Leone/Brumby or possibly first gen Legacy they have a few of those joiners in the engine bay from factory.

brakeline_joiners.jpg

Awesome!! That is exactly what I'm after. I just touched the tip of the welder to the line so about a 2mm split.

Removed the lines, took into BNT and cost <$25 for the joiner, nipples and flaring. Just needed to add some brake fluid and bleed. Hopefully lesson learnt.

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