Todays mission:

Brake and clutch pipework.

Found out the hard way the last couple of days that cheapy ebay pipe flaring tools like these:



are dogshite.

so after several failed attempts to make a decent flared end that i'd trust my life to, the towel was thrown in and shelled out for a proper tool...




Works a million times better and easily does single and double flares even on the original steel piping.







much better, still had to use the crappy one for the two 1/4 pipes from the master cylinder to the ABS unit which was a struggle and required a couple of failed attempts resulting in the pipes being bent at angles other than 90 degrees.... this wreaked havoc with my OCD, but wasn't kicking me in the head enough to warrant going out for an extra roll of pipe.











Got some clips on order, so should be able to neaten things up and replace the old white clips which are just there to space the pipes temporarily.

Once i'd filled the header and bled everything I noticed a leak from one of the 1/4 pipes into the ABS unit, this was caused by the die scraping the pipe as it was forming the flare, i just annealed the flare with a blowtorch and nipped it up again which made it soft enough to get a good seal


Re-bled the system and got it leak free, needs another bleeding session with the pedal when theres two of us as theres a little bit of squish and i can hear air bubbles in the pipework somewhere, which i cant seem to clear with the vacuum bleeder. It will be nice to get the pipes clipped back and neatened up so we can knock another job off the seemingly neverending list

Next job is to get the cossie bottom pulley in the lathe and machine the front 'V' section off so i can weld on a plate to screw the ribbed AC pulley and trigger wheel on, as we need this in place to position some mounts for the AC pump, and also so that we can get the shelf above the rads for the battery and some of the wiring to go across.