What size is the nut on a rear caliper brake line?

  1. Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Jul 2011 Newcastle upon Tyne Posts: 7779 Phase 2 VTS , E61 M5
    #1
    Is it some jazzy imperial size?
  2. Infrequent Poster Joined: Oct 2011 Bristol Posts: 129 2002 Saxo VTS
    #2
    13mm i think mate
  3. Saxperience Hardcore! Joined: Oct 2008 Birtley Posts: 22253 VTR Turbo, 106 xsi track slag, Transit recovery, B
    #3
    should be an 11 iirc?
  4. Saxperience Hardcore! Joined: Nov 2005 Coventry Posts: 17782 Fiesta ST150
    #4
    was gonna say, ain't all brake lines 11mm?
  5. Regular Poster Joined: Jul 2009 chorley lancashire pr7 Posts: 401 106 s2 gti turbo,46k quicky,caddy van vr6, and a w
    #5
    flexi hose 13mm into caliper and 11mm into brake line as i remember
  6. Established Member Joined: Jun 2011 Hertfordshire Posts: 1574 '07 Saab 93 Vector Sport - '79 Citroën Dyane
    #6
    Good luck getting it off, go buy a brake pipe spanner, it's a C shaped spanner that has a gap for the pipe so it grips more of the nut and even then it'll probably round off...

    If all it's going to do is round off, stop, just cut the pipe off at the unions and use an 11mm socket to un do it, it's your best option, then either buy some copper brake pipe from a motor factors with unions and a flaring kit ~£40, or take the pipe you've cut and ask them to make one up for that length, probably cost about £5 a side...

    You'll also need to un do the 13mm bolt holding the flexihose to the torsion bar so you can un do that union.

    Good luck, brake lines are a bastard!
  7. Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Jul 2011 Newcastle upon Tyne Posts: 7779 Phase 2 VTS , E61 M5
    #7
    Well the bleed nipple snapped and the brake line one is giving me hell

    My braided lines are in the post so I'll chop it off and use a socket I think