I still remember the first time I had to put a double-flare on a hard steel line. My dad and I were doing a brake job on our 1987 Suburban. The rear hard line for the wheel cylinder had rusted up and the nut was stripped. We had no choice but to cut it off and make a new ...
Adulthood, peak of what we did not yet know would be the first dot-com boom, living on the edge of an ocean my 24/7 job crisscrossing the country hardly afforded me time to see, I hopped a last-minute flight to join friends in Thailand, ferried to Koh-Phi-Phi, an island in the...
3. Once you have the basic shape and length laid out, it's time to flare the ends. Most important on this step is to use a tubing cutter. If you're bent on not using one, at least make sure to use a fine-tooth (24-tooth blade minimum) hack saw and slowly cut the line. You...