Turner responded to my emails about the brake lines not having the correct fittings on them yesterday. Of course, the initial comment was as expected:
"Very odd, this is the first problem we have had with these lines since we started selling them in 1995."
Long and short of it is they said they checked all the lines they had in stock (30 sets) and could not find a single problem with any of those. That being the case they did not want to refund the price of the lines or comp me a rebuilt caliper. Instead they created a UPS call ticket for UPS to pickup the DEFECTIVE line set. I realy don't see how I could have made it more clear that the lines had the wrong fittings. The brake fittings are all M10X1.0 which is 25.4 threads per inch. The male fittings on these lines were 24 threads per inch so they are most likely to 3/8-24NF as this is the most common US brake fitting size.....
Lucky for me the guys around the corner at Harrions Motorsport had a set of UUC lines in stock. What do you know, those had the correct M10X1.0 fittings on them and they matched the stock fittings to perfection. They also had a M10x1.0 thread chaser they were kind enough to let me use. I was able to clean the caliper threads up with no issues.
While I was at Harrison I went ahead and grabbaed a few more items to help finish up the current brake and suspension work. These were rear shock mounts (common point of failure on E36's) and brake caliper rebuild kits (Andrew suggested I go ahead and do this now while everything is off the car). After I got home and looked over my shocks I called Harrison back ordered a full set of front and rear bump stops and bust boost to round out the parts for this stage of the build.
And finally a picture of the parts from yesterday:
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