Brake Line Tools

[Tomahawk715]

Anyone care to recommend a flaring kit and/or brake tube bender??

[randyscycle]

Just about any of the double flaring tools sold by NAPA and the like are the same stuff. Just try to avoid the Chinese ones if you can.

As far as a tubing bender, I wouldn't buy one anymore. Just go to the local NAPA and get the green coated polymer brake line. You can bend it by hand or around a round object like a piece of exhaust pipe without it kinking.

[rboltz]

Just about any of the double flaring tools sold by NAPA and the like are the same stuff. Just try to avoid the Chinese ones if you can.

As far as a tubing bender, I wouldn't buy one anymore. Just go to the local NAPA and get the green coated polymer brake line. You can bend it by hand or around a round object like a piece of exhaust pipe without it kinking.

And, you can get most any size and length with the nuts and flares already on them. So, you don't need the flare tool.

[kwai]

Get the flare tool. You need to learn how to use it anyway. I buy the long sections of tubing and more nuts and cut to the length needed.

[Tomahawk715]

Yeah I'm gonna be proactive and just replace all the lines on this thing as I've swapped to the 60/14 anyway. Might as well start from scratch. Had a small leak in the front line-pinhole somewhere where it jumped over to the passenger side. Eastwood has the spools of line that I've been told is of good quality and pretty easy to work. I was just concerned with tight bends-such as going into proportioning valve.

[Barrman]

Once you get to using the flare tool, you will want to replace more line just to play with it. Do them all if you can since line is basically cheap insurance compared to a pedal slapping to the floor.