Originally posted by brianrupnow
Finally made it out to the garage tonite to bleed the brakes on the roadster pickup---even got a reluctant O.K. from Momma to help, as chief pedal pumper.--So, allright, figured I might as well get everything set up in the garage before I get her to tear herself away from "Jeopardy". --Filled the master cylinder with new fluid, bench bled the master cylinder as per instructions, put the lid back on, and started to pump pedal by hand to see if I can get some resistance.---Wait---whats that splashing I hear---look under car---Oh my Gawd---Looks like Niagara under there!!!!!
Tomorrow I will go down to tool store and buy some box end brakeline wrenches, the kind with the slot in the box end to fit around the brakeline. I'm afraid to tighten things any more with my open end wrenches in case I screw up the fittings.--I used a double flare style flaring tool as per "standard operating procedure for brakeline fittings"---Hope I haven't forgotten how to do that properly. Ah well, three steps foreward and two steps back.
I can only talk from my experiience, I did the entire brake line set up with discs up front and drum rears, two residual valves and a proportioning valve and just snugged the lines up and when my wife did the dreaded helping with the brakes there were many leaks. I did the flare nut wrench and thing and had to tighten the fitting a quite abid to stop the leaks and they did and remained that way. I did my own flares on many but mine or the few store bought one did the same. I suggest a GOOD SNUG Up. Ed k6bnl