well the yesterday Eckohb and Myself replaced his slipping clutch with a fresh 5th gen setup and its AWSOME! I then decided sense i was in a mechanical mood while doing a clutch install i was going to change out my leaky rubber lines from the masters hardline to the slave with my new ss line. So i first disconnected the banjo bolt from the slave cyl. I then went on to take the boxy looking thing off the motor mount and finally to get that smaller of the two rubber hoses off of the hardline that comes from the master. i held the hardline with i think a 10mm wrench and used a vise grips to turn the rubber line. I then found that after one turn i was turning the hardline with it!! might i add that i used a TON of PB blaster on it so it would turn easy. So i turned it back then used two vise grips, one to turn the rubber line and one to hold the hardline in place. well of course being full of pb blaster it was slick and the hardline turned yet again . So i said screw it and twisted it back then hooked everything back up and bled it out for like an hour til it was perfect or seemed to be. it has been fine but its now feeling funny after a day as i relized i cracked the hardline and its been leaking out slowly and getting air in the line at the same time so anyway ive never seen anyone replace that whole hardline with anything besides nismo3112 which he made custom. Does anyone know anywhere i can get a full ss line like nismo3112 that can go directly from the master to the slave insted of that hardline to the slave? im sure somone else has done the same thing by accedent. i really dont want to put another hardline in and wouldnt even know how to do it in the first place. Any help would be really really awsome at this point as after each drive i need to add fluid and bleed it out

-Ryan

 

Most automotive places sell hard brakelines, same thing. Get a piece, a flare tool, a pipe cutter, and a pipe bender, some fittings, and your all set. Sounds like a lot, but Ive made clutch lines before, most of the other stuff can be found at your local hardware store. Good luck.

 

Your first mistake was using incorrect tools. Get a set of flair wrenches to work on brake lines and such. You can make a replacement line yourself, your local auto parts store should carry hard line and fittings. You'll need a flair tool to make the connections. You can probably order a new line from Nissan, doubt your dealer would have that in stock, a phone call wount hurt.

 

instead of buy ones from the dealer i just ended up making my own line. from master cylinder straight to the ss lines.

 

so basically it looks like i have to make my own?

 

It's either that or bring the car to a mechanic, they will have the tool to make the new line. Honestly, I don't think they would even charge that much, it's actually easy to do with the right tools.

 

That hardline bolt is a PITA to loosen....mine started to strip and I really didn't want anything cracking or breaking, so I'm just going to replace my clutch lines with the 'full length' SS lines going from the master cylinder all the way down to the slave.

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