Well that was a long wait I'm afraid. Knowing that I'm useless at making bubble flairs on brake lines, I had ordered a set of lines ready made via Ebay. Unfortunately they had been made to the 'ABS' pattern and not the 'ASC+T' pattern which meant that the main lines from front to rear were wrong. The replacements arrived yesterday and so I was able to get back to work in the afternoon. First job was to duplicate the lines which is so much easier if you can remove the old ones intact.
This is the new line bent and taped beside the old one to get it as accurate as possible. It doesn't have to be absolutely identical but should be as close as possible. Below is one for a trailing arm.
I had to buy a new tool. My old bending tool at the top of the photo bends OK but its hard to accurately place the bend along the pipe. The new blue tool is fiddly to use but you can accurately position the bends. Anything less that 90 degrees is easier using just fingers though I found.
I did make one cockup:
The left and right rear lines have different sized nuts at the ABS unit so that you don't switch them by accident. I hadn't noticed this and so had to swop nuts and re-make the flair (after a couple of practice goes.
So today, the rear sub-frame/axle was refitted to the car using two trolley jacks, the car jack and several large blocks of wood. It went OK but would be easier with two people!
Today's problem was a bit unexpected - I bought a Pagid handbrake cable to replace the one I had to cut and drift out, but the end diameter is about half a mm too large for the hole in the back plate. Serial numbers all seem to be correct so I don't know what's amiss. I may go and buy another make cable tomorrow and return the Pagid one as I don't want to be held up by this.
