Saturday, October 24, 2009

Clamps Part 2: WTF?

Well I had hoped to have the brake job finished last night. However, I ran into a snag. After spending several hours running around town trying to find an 11mm flair nut wrench for the oem brake line fittings, I finally managed to get one full set of lines off the car (Rear lines are in 3 sections, two flex lines and one hard line) and one calliper ready for installation of the brass slide bushings and steel lines.

As I attempted to snug down the steel line into the cliper, DOHHHH! The fitting went loose. I slowly backed the fitting out and started trying to figure out WTF the problem was. Here it is:

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Some how the lines shipped with the wrong male fittings. Of course, I did not get to this point until after turner had closed for the weekend.

All the female fitting are the correct 26 threads per inch, while all the male fittings in the line kit are 24 threads per inch. I'm sure Turner will refund me for the lines, but I also now have a damaged calliper as a result. Lets see if they are willing to send me a rebuilt calliper to make things right.

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