Thread: Fitting Wilwood RPV to 3/8" flared line

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Originally Posted by roadster32

Well spotted Paul, I hadn't noticed that

Just confirm 2lb for discs 10lb for drums.

Regardless where the discs are - that line gets 2lb RPV's. On mine, it's 2lb front AND rear with the 4 wheel discs.

....are we having fun yet??? Confused anyone???

I tightend the adapters into the rpv's off the car then tightend it on to the line so I thought everything was tight, but maybe trying to tighten the line I loosened the adapter. I'll try to snug everything up again with a little sealer for good measure. Since all my npt connections leaked I'm hoping the sealer helps.

Thanks everyone.

About the residual valves-----most master cylinders have them and you don't need them in line

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

About the residual valves-----most master cylinders have them and you don't need them in line

Jerry- when the MC is below the floor, the recommendation (Wilwood's) is to use separate RPV's in each line. You will then need to pull any existing in the MC. I went through that exercise on a previous car with crappy brakes until I did that - afterwards the brakes were great.

usually when you put the master under the floor it gets turned around and plumbed back to rear front to front-----if you do that and don't remove the master cylinder valves you have mismatched componetry and crappy brakes--removing the m/c valves and putting in the inline units fixes that problem but gives you 4 more places for a leak and 2 addional parts to fail.