Re: Tips on double flaring brake lines?

[farna@xxxxxxx]

I can only add that you DEFINITELY need a good tool to begin with! I don't think the tubing they use now is nearly as hard (or maybe just thick) as the stuff used in the early 60s (come to think of it, thick is probably the answer -- surely technology has advance to the point they can make it thinner now!). I tried using a $35 double flare kit to flare the end of a line in my 63 Classic. Toasted the tool die getting the initial flare!! Maybe with a good tool with hardened steel dies it could be done, but I ended up using a compression fitting to splice a line. I check it occasionally, but it's holding just fine with no seeping/leaking at all (been in there about three years now). 


On May 4, 2005 Bob Johnston wrote:

> I'm having trouble getting a seal on my double flared
> 3/16" brake lines. I filed and chamferred inside and
> outside of tube etc. Flare looks good, but leaks under
> pressure. I did search and saw some of the cheaper
> double flaring kits can put flare off center.
> Wondering if any list members had success with the
> lower end double flaring tool, and how they did it?
> 
> 
> Thanks,  Bob.
> 
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