bfellows

Does anyone have any experience of fitting replacement rear Goodridge braided hoses. A friend of mine is struggling as he reckons the fittngs seem wrong (not enough depth to seat the hoses onto the copper washers?) I got mine fitted as a favour and just assumed they were a direct swap? Any advice, or tips (I have confirmed with Goodridge that they are the correct hoses.)

UKKid35

Actually the other way round, the Goodridge part is too deep, the solid brake line part won't bottom out to seal the flare.

Only easy solution is to take off some of the Goodrigde part, taking care to ensure non of the filings gets in the lines.

Ben

I didn't have any problems with fitting mine, but all of my solid brake lines have been replaced. They must have used deeper fittings when changing them.

jon928se

As Paul said

The female thread on the inboard end of the Goodridge hoses is too deep, so that the fitting (I'll call it a flare bolt) on the copper brake pipe bottoms out on the hex before the double flare on the copper pipe reachs the seating at the bottom of the female thread on the goodridge hose.

I think that the reason for this is that Porsche used a shallower "flare bolt" than normal. I had to replace the copper lines on my GT and the only "flare bolts" I could buy after much searching were all longer than the originals. Fortuanately this meant I didn't have the problem when fitting the Goodridge hoses.

bfellows

Thanks all!