Clues about a classic car buy. Plus, making up a new copper brake pipe for a classic car is a fairly common job, especially when the old car in question has been laid up for a while. The process involves selecting a piece of new copper or copper-nickel pipe of the correct diameter to the right length (or ideally a little longer) then double-flaring both ends using a brake pipe flaring kit. This video shows how I made up a new brake line.
This isn't a classic car restoration video and there are better videos on how to flare a brake or fuel line pipe out their posted up by trained mechanics (which I am not), so please check them out if you're planning on replacing brake pipes on your classic car, and check thoroughly for leaks after fitted a new brake line. Caveat emptor.
The last time I made up a new brake line it was for our 1952 Morris Minor MM that had been standing, that was a few years ago so it took a couple of goes before I was happy with the flares I created on the pipe shown here.
This brake pipe repair is for a recently-purchased classic car of the early 1970s, it'll be introduced properly in a later video once I've completed a few more jobs on it, however I do give a few clues as to its identity in this video. As discussed recently, my aim is to cut back on major projects and replace them with (fewer) cars that work already, or are close to being on the road. The idea of buying something more suited to longer trips has also been talked about in a previous video, and this recent purchase is part of that plan for 2021.
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