hey, i'm putting on some stainless steel brake lines and the only problem i'm running into is the 10mm bolt connecting the stock metal lines to the rubber ones WILL NOT come off......i've already stripped one pretty much

ANY SUGGESTIONS???

 

c'mon peeps, i should've started out with a FLARE wrench instead of a simple open ended....dam, is there anything i can do once i have stripped one of these bolts?

 

sorry man, if its stripped, you're going to have to take it to a shop and have them take it out for you.

 

use a channelock if stripped, spray some chemical first

 

Vice Grip Plyers might help you out. Grab em really hard and twist. Next time use the correct tool for the job and you wount strip the nuts. The few bucks for a flare wrench is well worth a job done smoothly.

 

Damn you stripped that nut? Sucks...uhmm well two things:

1) Use vice grips like he said before...get some liquid wrench up in there.

2) You may want to get replacement tubing for that brake line...or at least take it off and somehow get another nut on there. My concern would be that you may not be able to tighten it to the correct torque when you put the SS lines on. Out of anything on my car, i'm very paranoid about my brakes and I wouldn't want that line to come loose...

 

alright i got the stripped nuts off just took a long long time.....however i now have them on but my "brake" light stays on all the time now....does this mean i still have air in the lines?

 

Make sure you replace those stripped nuts. If you can't tighten them up again properly, you may have a leak/low pressure.

Check ur fluid, make sure its alteast over 50% fill level.

Bleed ur lines. That brake "light" checks for pressure if I read correctly. Start from the back, to the front. That probably means...passenger back...driver back......passenger front...passenger front.