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Brake pipes made up in Newbury/Basingrad area

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Hi,

Can anyone recommend where I can get a clutch pipe made up in Newbury or Basingstoke. Don't know the sizes I need until I take it off and no one else seems to know for certain, so I need to be able to wait while they do them. Is the clutch pipe between the master cylinder in distribution block in the footwell.

Or if anyone knows the sizes I need for certain, that would also be a huge help.



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Pirtek are my usual port of call.

I think your nearest is Reading

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Bart wrote:Hi,

Can anyone recommend where I can get a clutch pipe made up in Newbury or Basingstoke. Don't know the sizes I need until I take it off and no one else seems to know for certain, so I need to be able to wait while they do them. Is the clutch pipe between the master cylinder in distribution block in the footwell.

Or if anyone knows the sizes I need for certain, that would also be a huge help.
Buy a flaring tool and make one yourself? Always a useful tool to have.
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Think Automotive in Twickenham, but I saw what looked like a new warehouse being set up in the Sunbury area.

Either way not far from you!

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DaveEFI wrote:
Bart wrote:Hi,

Can anyone recommend where I can get a clutch pipe made up in Newbury or Basingstoke. Don't know the sizes I need until I take it off and no one else seems to know for certain, so I need to be able to wait while they do them. Is the clutch pipe between the master cylinder in distribution block in the footwell.

Or if anyone knows the sizes I need for certain, that would also be a huge help.
Buy a flaring tool and make one yourself? Always a useful tool to have.
Hi, that's what I've gone for. However, I've done some practice ones and I'm crap at it. Plus I think I have the wrong tool. I need convex flares that look like a botton on the end, as opposed to double flares. I think my tool is meant for the latter, but I have been omitting the second step to just get the bubble flare. It's one with a bar to clamp the pipe and an arbor to screw down to flare the pipe. Think they are DIN/ISO flares I need?

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Not quite sure. My tool came with a variety of dies and made the ends I wanted OK. But you do need to start out with a square end - I used a pipe cutter.
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DaveEFI wrote:Not quite sure. My tool came with a variety of dies and made the ends I wanted OK. But you do need to start out with a square end - I used a pipe cutter.
This is the type of flare. It is the clutch pipe from the master cylinder on my Chimaera. It keeps weaping

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is it me or does the end of the fitting look to be flaring outwards?
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Coops wrote:is it me or does the end of the fitting look to be flaring outwards?
Yes it is. That's why I think it won't seal. You can also see a polished bit on the end of the fitting where I think it's tightening down, as opposed to tightening on the flare. The other end of the pipe is the same

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