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My rear calipers have to come off for some serious cleaning. Unfortunately, the previous owner over torqued the hydraulic line connector and rounded it. So the question is - how do I best remove the short solid hydraulic line from both the caliper and the flexible break line?
I tried pb blaster but can't get a good grip with a flare wrench any more. I thought about cutting the tube - I do have a new replacement - and use a bolt extractor with a little heat. While that may work on the caliper side, heat will not work on the flex hose side.
On my crusty UK car I found cutting the lines and undoing by allowing the hose and fitting to rotate together worked, along with some mole grips.
Yes, my thinking exactly. I tried just using grips but no dice. The lines are mangled pretty badly and I am now wondering if that actually reduced the inner diameter of the fixed lines and therefore impeding brake performance. I am speculating that a previous owner unbolted the caliper without first removing the brake line. The calipers are pretty heavy so I can see how you could torque the line.
Anyway, pictures to come once I am in there.
So I replaced the short solid brake lines from caliper to the flexible house.
Old vs new lines. Yes, they were so mangled that the inner diameter was restricted so hydraulic pressure to the calipers must have been impacted.
Something so small and what looks simple with big impact.
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Removing rounded brake lines - question
