Making brake pipes

[thinfourth2]

So you have the MOT fail sheet and you need to replace a brake pipe

You have the knowledge

You have the tools

You have the parts

You get the pipe, slide the fitting on and flare one end and go under the car get everything bent into shape

Then return to the work bench to flare the other end

What are the chances of you forgetting to slide on the fitting

[GroundEffect]

Fabricating your own brake pipes?

It's your funeral.

[The Nur]

Pretty conclusive so far, 66% are tards

Of 3 members polled...

[thinfourth2]

GroundEffect said:

Fabricating your own brake pipes?

It's your funeral.

Okay i'll get the apprentice who is half pissed and brain dead at the main dealers to make them while he plays on bookface on his iPhone

[Eighteeteewhy]

After you've done it once, you'll never do it again.

[thinfourth2]

Eighteeteewhy said:

After you've done it once, you'll never do it again.

You want to put money on that

[4key]

The Nur said:

Pretty conclusive so far, 66% are tards

Of 3 members polled...

One time I tried to bleed the brakes without connecting the pipe at both ends, that is next level tard

[andym1603]

GroundEffect said:

Fabricating your own brake pipes?

It's your funeral.

Why?

[GroundEffect]

thinfourth2 said:

GroundEffect said:

Fabricating your own brake pipes?

It's your funeral.

Okay i'll get the apprentice who is half pissed and brain dead at the main dealers to make them while he plays on bookface on his iPhone

MAKE them? They just fit them. They are made, with proper process controls, at the supplier...

...with a design that has been durability tested and DV/PV tested up their arse for a few years.

As I said. Your funeral. Buy a black suit.

[The Nur]

4key said:

One time I tried to bleed the brakes without connecting the pipe at both ends, that is next level tard

There are some that can and those that can't.

I consider myself to reside firmly in the latter camp.

[interloper]

Been there done that, fortunately on a short piece of pipe.

[The Nur]

GroundEffect said:

As I said. Your funeral. Buy a black suit.

Save the expense, I'm sure the family will provide one

[interloper]

GroundEffect said:

MAKE them? They just fit them. They are made, with proper process controls, at the supplier...

...with a design that has been durability tested and DV/PV tested up their arse for a few years.

As I said. Your funeral. Buy a black suit.

On certain vehicles you cannot get off the shelf replacement pipes, copper replacement home made jobs are perfectly good enough on clubmnen race and rally cars. So long as they are located correctly should easily be up to the job on a road car.

[4key]

NEVER MODIFY ANYTHING ON YOUR CAR EVER, YOU WILL DIE!!!11!!!

How am I going to fit this pedal box using only oem brake lines

[Chicane-UK]

I helped a friend fabricate new brake lines on his car several years ago - we replaced all the hard lines on the car, and whilst he and another friend did all the spannering I was responsible for making lines that matched up to the existing ones which were being taken off the car.

Pleased to report the car is still on the road, and my friend has not had any incidents involving brake failure

It's like so many things - buy the right tools and parts, and take your time. It's not rocket science.

[DrTre]

GroundEffect said:

MAKE them? They just fit them. They are made, with proper process controls, at the supplier...

...with a design that has been durability tested and DV/PV tested up their arse for a few years.

As I said. Your funeral. Buy a black suit.

Slight overreaction isn't it? I thought it was vaguely common practice for home mechanics.

[GoneAnon]

GroundEffect said:

thinfourth2 said:

GroundEffect said:

Fabricating your own brake pipes?

It's your funeral.

Okay i'll get the apprentice who is half pissed and brain dead at the main dealers to make them while he plays on bookface on his iPhone

MAKE them? They just fit them. They are made, with proper process controls, at the supplier...

...with a design that has been durability tested and DV/PV tested up their arse for a few years.

As I said. Your funeral. Buy a black suit.

Do you really believe that brake pipes arrive from the oem factory, all safe and sound and unchanged from the original bends?

Or do you think the garage make them up on site or maybe get the local motor factor to make them up?

I've made complete brake pipe sets for two cars so far and haven't killed myself yet. Mind you, I've only given it 25 years or thereabouts and thousands of miles to prove my "engineering ability".

[steveo3002]

theyre easy to make ..as said will only be half intrested scrote at the garage making them instead

suprised all you track day racing legends dont make your own..has anyone on here picked up a spanner?

[Kitchski]

GroundEffect said:

thinfourth2 said:

GroundEffect said:

Fabricating your own brake pipes?

It's your funeral.

Okay i'll get the apprentice who is half pissed and brain dead at the main dealers to make them while he plays on bookface on his iPhone

MAKE them? They just fit them. They are made, with proper process controls, at the supplier...

...with a design that has been durability tested and DV/PV tested up their arse for a few years.

As I said. Your funeral. Buy a black suit.

Ha! Have you ever bought any brake pipes from a dealer?

[Mr2Mike]

I've never forgotten to slide the tube nut on, but I have put them on back to front once or twice which amounts to the same thing.