goodridge hose, nut is spherical :|
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Just been out in the hope of fitting my new 7.5" calipers and bleeding the brakes.

Passenger side caliper came away from the hose fine, drivers side is rounded to hell. tried mole grips and a pipe wrench, and these keep slipping off, even tried grinding the surface back flat with a dremel and trying again. still wont budge. any suggestions? :/

I take it its the banjo bolt into the caliper, if its a steel bolt and you have a mig you could try welding a 10/13mm ish nut to the head of it to try and undo it that way, sounds like it may need some heat/penetrating oil too-i find heat most effective, failing that you may have to bastardise the bolt ie dremmel/drill the head off the bolt and remove the remains of it from the caliper being careful of the hose and threads, or is it the straight type union which goes into the caliper?

oli

Edited by oli79 on 14th Feb, 2011.

On 5th Oct, 2014 Shauna said:
What that's crazy, you go commando hahaha! How heavy is your helmet ?

http://www.minispares.com/Product.aspx?ty=...id=34809&title=

its one of those, the bit at the left hand side of the picture.

I think im going to have to find a way to minispares and borrow some money to buy another pair, when im only going to use the one. Just spent the last of my money on an arc angels front and fitting kit and some tools. :/

Yep thought last min it may be those type,I had forgot as mine are different-i think whatever you do with those your going to muller them getting em out to the point of being unusable, sounds like they may be that way already, only my 2 peneth and you may already do this but I like to put copper grease on just about everything threaded as I put it together, even normal grease is good, makes life easier down the road.

oli

On 5th Oct, 2014 Shauna said:
What that's crazy, you go commando hahaha! How heavy is your helmet ?

Yeah, i generally copperslip anything i see fit, and yep, the hose is pretty mullered right now. just gonna undo the banjo on the subby and replace the drivers side hose i think, isnt much hope left other than cutting it off.

Remove the caliper from the car and clamp the bolt in a vice. Twist the caliper to unscrew it.

have you got any heavy duty mole grips? i have some that have a resessed bit for rounded items, if you do then do them so tight you can hardly clamp it up and then just genterly tap it with a hammer that got mine off my 8.4" breaks, the previous owner muset have decided to weld them on for kicks i swear.

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