How to - brake pipe flare for dummies

[@stapleford]

Happy New Year for tonight Thanks for the video Done these a few times on my 88 Just a heads up anyone with the post 1980 rationalised axles Not only does the 88 have uprated twin cylinder front cylinders but all the flex hoses fittings are metric and hence flares need to be as well unless you fit imperial hoses and remake all the ends The warning is that imperial hoses will fit but wont be safe if you don’t realise

[@churchhouseclassics]

Happy new year to you also. I have pinned your comment 👍🍻 This is a post rationalisation car, the slave cylinders I removed were imperial and flexi's are metric along with the T pieces, PDWA and master. It is critical, as you say, to choose the correct fixing when replacing them! My rule is that a metric male fixing will not fit into a female imperial fixing. Thus I am able to identify which fixings are required for each custom made line. IF I were to use an imperial male fixing into a metric female, it will fit but cannot be tightened and will leak. Then you get into a world of US, Far East and European fixings and different angle of flare!

[@highdownmartin]

Tried various tools and arrived at the one you used in this vid. Bloody excellent tool. Highly recommended.

[@rhendry5832]

I’m a DIY mechanic and I’ve done 3 Timing belts, I do brakes, springs all the usual repairs reasonably easily but tonight brake pipes had stumped me until I watched this video. I’ll go back out tomorrow night and give it a better go 👍🏼

[@gshort4707]

Happy Christmas 🎅 Thanks for another excellent video 🙂

[@churchhouseclassics]

glad you enjoyed it. HNY for 2022 to you also

[@davemartin53]

Great job 👍 from Cornwall

[@deniscudahy4549]

Hope you and your family have a great Christmas and all the best for the new year 👍👍👍

[@churchhouseclassics]

Thank you, and you also 👍

[@bob66786]

Merry Christmas & Happy prosperous New year Richard

[@churchhouseclassics]

Thank you very much, and to you also

[@alanalzee4849]

Have a great Christmas to you and your family Richard, I have an old Sykes Pickavent brake flare tool which is so easy to use with good results, I like the look of the one that you used in the video with it being hand held, oh have a great new years eve 🍻

[@churchhouseclassics]

Thanks, you too! 👍🍻 I love picking up proper pickavent stuff at auctions and junk stalls. Folk think it is no good because it is not shiny. Their loss

[@aljamieson491]

Cracking video buddy, thank you! Just for the avoidance of doubt I have a female coupling as per your diagram 3 and I have double flared the pipe therefore the male connecter to enter that female coupling needs to be a bubble flare doesn't it? (All my other flares on the vehicle are double however as I'm splicing in a new section this one end needs to be different to all the rest (and not double a double to double don't work!).

[@jimginn7163]

Merry xmas and a Happy New Year Richard, and as my name says i will be having a gin or three😂👍

[@churchhouseclassics]

There is nowt wrong with a Gin or three, I install the, into one glass at the same time. Saves me walking to the fridge as often

[@petershepherd6889]

Good informative video. I did refrigeration and air conditioning for 17 years and the flares were single flares on pipe from 1/4 - 3/4 and occasionally the flares would fracture with vibration. Why didn't they use double flares🤔. Have a merry Christmas.

[@churchhouseclassics]

Glad you enjoyed it 👍 Never understood single flares but I do have a habit for over engineering stuff

[@jagvette1]

daddy it's not clear, do it again with a thicker pen please :)

[@churchhouseclassics]

I did wonder that but simply had betterer things to do 😂👍🍻

[@jagvette1]

@@churchhouseclassics Yup know the feeling sometimes it's a case of , OH FUCK IT

[@ralphaelalfaro6023]

Yea,would've been better but I was able to zoom in and get the picture. Most excelant demo otherwise, thanks.

[@napper1496]

Well f@@k me. This is the first video I’ve seen where there’s no horseshit etc and you tell us what kind of flare for a male AND female fitting ie bubble and double flare. Can I ask you though,if you were joining a pipe with a male and female fitting (no union fitting),would you do a bubble for the male and double flare for the female?

[@churchhouseclassics]

thank you, i think. Joining pipes I would always use a joiner! Doesnt matter if it is DIN or SAE, male or female (no other genders exist in this scenario) use compatible fixings and good flares and it should be good.

[@benjaminbarrett2225]

I think I have proved this is not idiot proof

[@churchhouseclassics]

In your case sir, the materials were at fault. The brake line i slightly compressed by the action of the tool gripping it. I just cut the flare off the end and reinstalled the same pipe and you found that the diameter was too small for the tool to grip it properly. Every day is a learning day 👍