Sears bubble flare tool

Well then, you'll need to start with a British bubble-flared line at the master cylinder, and then put an American-style "inverted" flare on the opposite end of that same line.

An American-style inverted flare looks like this: With a decent quality, readily available tool, you can make great inverted flares at home. The key is to buy a good American-made tool. If you buy a Chinese tool for this, I'll have to come down and kick your butt.

The Sears Craftsman tool is pretty good. I actually have a Chinese flaring tool too, and it makes really crappy flares no matter how carefully you use it. Note: I found that it worked out to buy mostly long pieces of "British" tubing and short pieces of "U. With regard to the clutch lines I agree with Bill that braided-steel covered flexible line seems to be the hot ticket. Get yourself a Pegasus Auto Racing catalog and study the three or four pages of fittings.

Posted by: ex-tyke Date: February 04, PM. If you have a couple of practice runs, you can get acceptable flaring results - at least mine haven't leaked yet! If I was contemplating doing a lot of flaring, I'd buy something a little more robust as Curtis suggests. Quote: I'll have to come down and kick your butt. Posted by: rficalora Date: February 04, PM. Actually I've been studying Pegasus on-line which is what led me to the questions I've only found two fittings that are designed to work with the spring clips to transition from braided to hard line That takes care of the brakes.

Posted by: 74ls1tr6 Date: February 04, PM. Ran into the same problem with flares and the sort because of different components Toyota calipers, Nissan Calipers, Wilwood master, and stock clutch. I was able to get all the fittings that I needed using Earl's or Russell fittings.

I was able to do away with some hard lines to braded lines. Your local performance shop will have all the fittings you may need to convert over to AN. When I picked the Wilwood residual pressure valve example earlier They have all the typical special automotive tools. Not that I'm afraid of Curtis or Steve Curtis, thanks for the part numbers on the fittings for the residual pressure valves.

Speedway is where I'd tagged to get the valves so you just saved me a bunch of time finding fittings. Similar to Standard Tilton Master Cylinder but extends only 3.

Provides a full 1. Edited 1 time s. Rob, a lot of sources I've seen don't recommend aluminum AN fittings for brake systems, especially for a street car. I found that the industry standard hydraulic fittings called JIC are the same as AN in thread and flare but made in steel or stainless steel and the steel ones are quite a bit cheaper than the race car parts.

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