And the final part I dare say! Yesterday I had to pay one more visit to my local brake specialist. To collect yet another brake pipe and a small handheld flaring tool. The last item was necessary as I decided I would use the original holes in the nose panel. And as such I would be working without the correct template pipe. But by using my late template pipe, the drawings from my parts manuals and the car itself as template, I was able to create a new pipe. Though this time I had to do most of the shaping in the shed.
With this last hurdle taken it was at last time to fit the brake pipes to the car. But not before I had to spent some more time searching. For the braided flexible brake hoses this time. Luckily this time the search lasted only 5 minutes!
And that left me with the final job. Fitting them to the car. This time there were no more problems. Even my first attempt at using a flaring tool went well!
RKC1033 (PRV to back axle):
RKC1005 (PRV to LH front strut)
& RKC1007 (PRV to RH front strut):
Flexible hoses:
All pipes turned out to be fairly spot on. Though they all needed some on the spot tweaking to get a near perfect fit. Rather pleased with the result. And I now have regained some experience to tackle the final one; the fuel pipe.
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