How to bleed brakes that wont bleed properly?

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Brianmoooore
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Sun Jun 11, 2006 9:25 pm

oze30 wrote:i need a brake pipe flare tool ins't it? Where do I get the connectors from?
Local motor factors should have the cunnifer pipe and the ends (about 8p each). Make sure you get metric ones (although the pipe will be imperial). Last ones I bought, the muppet behind the counter insisted they were metric, although I questioned him because they didn't look right. Only confirmed they were imperial after I made up the first pipe and tried to fit it!
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Sun Jun 11, 2006 9:35 pm

Brianmoooore wrote:Last ones I bought, the muppet behind the counter insisted they were metric, although I questioned him because they didn't look right. Only confirmed they were imperial after I made up the first pipe and tried to fit it!
I've had the same trouble - walking back in because they've given me an imperial T-Piece & metric nuts......
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Sun Jun 11, 2006 10:21 pm

I can get another t piece plus hard wire from a scrapper ( I think) or would i be better off getting it from stealer/gsf/ecp???
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Mon Jun 12, 2006 12:24 am

oze30 wrote:I can get another t piece plus hard wire from a scrapper ( I think) or would i be better off getting it from stealer/gsf/ecp???
Tee piece is usually reuseable. It's brass, so it doesn't corrode.
It's the only piece of the rear brake lines rhat I've never replaced.
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Fri Jun 16, 2006 12:14 pm

So what is the correct process for bleeding brakes?
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