URGENT Help Needed !!!!!!!!!

F Body · November 10, 2011, 01:12:59 PM

I now have a brake pipe with a seized nipple ( Oh arr Vicar ) !

Managed to get the brake pipe off the car by taking it off attached to the rear wheel cylinder, which has taken over an hour

Brake pipe :

Free OK end :

Seized end :

Before I can refit the pipe I need to free the nipple without buggering the very flimsy pipe, what are your best ideas ????????????

NB : I've tried a bucket load of WD40 and rocking it backwards and forwards without success, the pipe looks and feels as flimsy as Aluminium

If it breaks I'll have get a new one made up at the weekend

Incursus · November 10, 2011, 01:40:28 PM

apply heat?

F Body · November 10, 2011, 02:07:32 PM

Quoting: Incursus

apply heat

Been considering gentle heating it on the cooker, but as I said it's well flimsy

Drum is ready to go back on :

Edit : Just spotted that loose spring

Any other ideas ???????????

F Body · November 10, 2011, 02:45:03 PM

Jeeze where is everybody when you need them

Drum is back on ready to go, except for the pipe, fluid & bleeding

F Body · November 10, 2011, 02:51:06 PM

Quoting: F Body

gentle heating it on the cooker,

It Worked OK

I may be outside for some time

Incursus · November 10, 2011, 03:46:12 PM

Quoting: F Body

Quoting: F Body
gentle heating it on the cooker,

It Worked OK

Your welcome

F Body · November 10, 2011, 04:42:55 PM

Just been for a test drive down the main 40 mph road and I didn't die

Summary started at 17:00pm and finished after the test drive at 21:30pm.

Wasted 1/2 an hour just getting the handbrake cable off the shoe arm.

Wasted at least 1 hour taking the brake pipe off, but I was damn skill full and/or lucky to get it off without shearing the seized nipple.

Total cost £13.92 for the brake cylinder and an unreasonable £32.40 for a set of rear brake shoes ( both sides ).

So that's £46.32 total plus the litre or so of brake fluid that I already had in the F Body stores and the satisfaction of doing the job yourself, rather than paying a garage a couple of hundred pounds

Andy · November 10, 2011, 07:19:49 PM

Bang tidy!

Couldn't offer any advice as I've never done that, but it looks like you have that job licked!

Now.....

Whats next?

F Body · November 11, 2011, 03:00:53 AM

Quoting: Andy

Whats next?

What ever breaks or falls off next week

Trying to nurse the tyres into lasting till after Christmas,
I decided not to actually measure the tread depth on the nearside rear last night