It would simplify installation of a new brake pipe if it was in two pieces, with a connector in the middle. I'm fine using proper flared connectors, and have a decent Sykes Pickavant flaring tool.
I see you can buy male-male and female-female connectors, metric and imperial, but that means going hunting.
Is there any reason not to use, say an ordinary female brake union, with a female flared pipe, connecting to a male flare held in with a male union fitting?
Kevin
If it seals, it seals. I'm sure I've done this sorting the brakes on a Disco.
Double flare Y in the nut. Nipple flare on the end in the union nut (male).
There will be someone along in a mo to tell us that the weight of the nut and union will cause the pipe to fail unless supported by a bracket.
Many thanks, Scott and Peter. This was for the pipe from the master cylinder to the front n/s flexible hose on a Defender, and I've just done it as advised. I can only assume that Defenders were built by hanging the one-piece pipe in mid-air, and building everything round it
- much as they did with the heater matrix in Range Rovers. I'll check the joint properly once I've done the other front brake hose. Fatigue life calculations, backed up by FEA of the pipe system, vibration analysis, and a good hard look tell me it will see me out.
Thanks again.
Kevin
ROFL!
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