Brake hose replacement

[Peter Calver]

Replaced the brake hoses (with aeroquip) over the weekend on our S1 - what a pig of a job it is to get at the inner end of the hose. I now have my first Elise specially adapted tool - a 13mm ring spanner cut in half with a slot ground through to get it over the brake pipe. This worked a treat. The standard Williams 13mm brake spanner is too thick around the end to get on the brake nut.
Now I just have to bleed the system.

[fergusd]

Peter Calver said:

Replaced the brake hoses (with aeroquip) over the weekend on our S1 - what a pig of a job it is to get at the inner end of the hose. I now have my first Elise specially adapted tool - a 13mm ring spanner cut in half with a slot ground through to get it over the brake pipe. This worked a treat. The standard Williams 13mm brake spanner is too thick around the end to get on the brake nut. Now I just have to bleed the system.

Get a pressure bleeder and be prepared to remove and invert the front calipers for the ultimate bleed . . . this is said from the experience of bleeding a lot of elise brake systems . . .

Fd

[steff]

Changing the hoses is the easy bit its the bleeding of the brakes that is the pain in the ars3.

Good luck!