Taking off front brake hose

[SambaS]

I'm having trouble removing a brake hose, if I try undo the nut on the copper brake pipe it twists the whole pipe. If I unscrew the nut holding the hose into the calliper the hose twists.

This impatient side of me wants to cut the whole lot off and replace. but that's madness.

[SambaS]

"Excessive chaffing on both front brake hoses" for MOT

[andy-xr]

I've done the 'cut it, it's pissing me off' thing before. It's all well and good until you're bleeding the brakes for an hour, on your own with an old spare tyre and a plastic bottle that keeps falling over

[E30M3SE]

Whenever I've done this in the past I've always used two spanners, one on the copper brake pipe nut and the other on the metal fitting on the end on the hose where it connects to the copper pipe, hold one turn the other.

[paintman]

Sounds like the pipe nut has corroded onto the pipe. Cut the metal pipe & replace it with a new one.
You COULD try messing about with a proper penetrating fluid - which doesn't include WD40 - but replacement is quicker.
I find the Eezibleeds straightforward to use when bleeding a system.

Edited by paintman on Monday 10th October 16:31

[ShayneJ]

spanner on both twist in opposite directions after a clean and a squirt of
penetrating fluid!

[SambaS]

Cheers everybody, have just ordered some new hoses, and some copper brake pipe and the nuts etc.

I will probably use the get a mate and a jam jar method to bleed the brakes

[TonyRPH]

Presumably you have a brake pipe flaring tool, because surely you're going to need one of those too?

[SambaS]

I'll take the pipes and nuts into my local garage, they did it before for me

TonyRPH said:

Presumably you have a brake pipe flaring tool, because surely you're going to need one of those too?