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Unread 08-09-2011, 10:32 PM
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******UPDATE******

It turns out that I was using a really cheap set of tools. I swore I would never bother to do this again since you can just go to a hardware store and they will sell you pre-flared lengths of tubing for a really good price.

A friend of mine that has done a few brake line jobs says it's really easy to make flares on the ends when you have the high quality tools. He says his Mac set of flaring tools does the job super easily. It seems that when you are torquing down with a lot of pressure the cheap tools push to one side which cause all sorts of binding and the flare doesn't come out uniform most of the time which lets fluid leak. Well when you use a high quality name brand unit he says it makes them correctly every time. I know who's set of flaring tools I'm using next time I have to do this!
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