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How do i get the peice of **** brake lines off?

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accidentprone86

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How do i get the front soft lines off of the hard line.??
I Took out the clip off and melted the god damn hose off trying to heat up the threads enough to break the bolts lose. I rounded the big nut but the hard line nut is still good.
What the hell am i to do?? i ruined the stock line and i cant get my stainless steels on there with out freeing up the hard line.
PLEASE HELP!!
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Michael Yount

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Hang in there - on my Volvo I ended up having to completely hacksaw the fitting off and buy used hard lines from the junk yard; I was removing them to put braided stainless lines in place of the rubber lines up front. And my car has 4-piston calipers with TWO soft lines running to each caliper -- so there were 4 fittings to cut through, 4 hard lines to place and 4 stainless lines to put on. It ended taking me a ful 2 days to get the job done. Good luck.

Oh - hopefully you haven't let the master cylinder run dry of fluid -- they can be a real bear to get the air out of unless you can bench-bleed them.
 

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use an open end wrench its the one that is cut open enough to get the brake lines through, if you did that try using wd40
 

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The clip keeps the whole thing from spinning when you try to unbolt the line. Use a flare or line wrench on the hard line part and use a vise grip on the rounded part of the soft line.That's getting replaced anyway so it doesn't matter if you bugger it up getting it off.
 

2000xp8

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I broke one side taking the rusty line out. The fitting came out, but twisted the brake line braking it.
Definetely get a brake line wrench.

IMO, get a new brake fitting, cut the hardline, then put the fitting on and cut and flare it. Goto the junkyard and get another little bracket.
 
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