Feckin corroded bleed nipples

Serves you right. Should've plus gassed em well in advance and then got some heat on them, plusgassed them again etc. I've yet to shear a bleed nipple off yet, even on calipers that haven't been bled in years, mainly due to a mortal fear of shearing off bleed nipples, meaning I go pretty gently and try *everything* to free them off. That loctite freeze and release spray works far better than I expected it ever would...

I wouldn't care, when we were at Rockingham last weekend I mentioned it to our crew chief and the first thing he said was 'watch you don't shear them off' so it's not like I wasn't warned lol

Decent stuff then, I may have to get some for future use

If you had mentioned it to me I'd have said the same, it gets worse as there seem to be some totally crap ones about at the moment, I watched two snap as they were going on last week at a local garage (a good one not a dealer/quick-fit job).

That probably means the change is well overdue.

For future reference, I've been told that diesel oil makes a fantastic penetrating oil. Guess that is why it can find it's way out of diesel pump seals so easily.

Might be worth soaking the nipples in diesel overnight, then trying a tighten the crack the corrosion rather tha loosen the try to fight the thread through any rust on the top of the body/thread. But I hate it when they snap/strip. You are left with trying to find an easyout or reverse threaded drill bit.

All because the manufacturers or their bean counters choose to fit a soft steel manky cheap nipple rather than a stainless steel one that has an anti sieze coating.

It makes my blood boil! Same with half the bolts and stuff under a car. Why use steel for exhausts and brake and fuel/coolant lines? Cheap...

And of course if the local council didnt use megatons of rocksalt which is as corrosive as hell and chips your paint and glass to boot, continually from october to april every year it wouldnt happen anyway. I hate rocksalt. It knackers and mucks up cars, motorbikes, wheelchairs, shoes and walls as well as blocks drains and means you cant see out of the windows. all to save us from a tiny bit of frost 3 nights a year. For christs sake if you cant cope with an icy road in these globally warmed days you are better off on the bus. They dont realise it actually causes accidents through crap visibility (windows all mucked up after about 1 mile) and months of artificially slippery roads. Yes salt attracts moisture. (almost as well as it attracts corrosion!) So where we would have bone dry roads for months at a time most of the winter we have permenantly wet ones soaked in a slippery mixture of rubber, salt, oil and soot from poxy desiesels. Even when it hasnt rained for days. Do you know why they use such huge quantities of this evil shit? And for over 6 months? Not because we need it, but because if they dont then next years goverment money allowance for the crap will drop. Bastards.

Phew. Now I feel better! Off to the pub.

Or some six pots and bigger vented grooved disks online...

And if a s**te design ends up with people not bothering to change the brake fluid as required, it'll end up making the brake fluid boil as well :-)

That could be the way forward :D

Heh I did try that on the second one, and it did crack the corrosion! Unfortunately the nut-shaped bit of the nipple was so much corrosion too and it flaked away, then the ring spanner I was using turned on it and it was game over for that nipple too: rounded off...

Bloody poxy jobs, it was all going so well until that point; all the routine stuff was done.

Just spoke to said garage; £30 to sort it all out and change the fluid (I've already got the fluid lol), so it's getting done on Thursday.

Well worth it. IME bleeding brakes is always more hassle than it should be.

Never ever use a 12 point tool on brake nipples. Full hex all the way.

Even a really cheap 1/4 drive set with deep full hex sockets is better than the most expensive 12 point tool for a job like this.

Not everything can be solved by throwing vast ammounts of money at it..... Oh wait ;)