the crack in my brake pipe that was weeping fluid has got worse when i was trying to repair it and actually sheared apart when i was trying to remove it.

 

Went to nissan to order a replacement and it was suprisingly cheap at 8 quid but the problem was that is was in Japan and wouldnt get to me until mid sept! He suggested going to the service dept and asking them to make me one up which they did but phoned me a day later telling me they had done but it was going to cost me £79! i argued this a bit but they wouldnt shift so i picked up my old one and tried to seal the hole myself with epoxy leak fix from halfords. I thought i sealed it when i blew it hard under water and there was not the fine stream of bubbles like there was before. Put it on and the drip was still there! tried adding the paste to seal up the whole but the fluid got through. was going to try and doing it again when it was dry but it sheared off when trying to remove it.

 

Soz about the long message!

 

Anyway I need a new brake pipe this weekend preferably. The way i see it i have got a few options.

- try and bargain Nissan down on the one they made me or even bite the bullet and pay the 80 notes just so i have it.

- Could i glue the 2 parts of the pipe back with something and seal it up. If so with what because brake fluid seemed to be very resistant to the epoxy i put on it. I will also order the replacement part so it would only be a stop gap measure. If this is not going to be dangerous (glue/weld stronger than the metal itself) i would be ok to do this.

- Go to a non-dealer garage and ask me to make one up for a resonable cost, but it is bank hol now and i dont know what will be open and prepared to do it. Would a kwik fit do that?

- A suggested on the previous thread i had on this leak i could buy or borrow a flaring kit and some copper tube and make one up myself, but where can i buy this from on a sat or does anyone have the kit close to the bournemouth or london area although i am prepared to travel further afield to get it!

- a kind soul on here to make me one with the flaring kit and i come and pick it up.

- buy one from MJP or SWZ or something and pick it up this weekend?!?

 

it is the passenger side one. Really need help and i am obviously stuffed without it!!

just go to the local garage they can make brake pipes up it's not a long job and will probally be cheaper

Bit of a trek but I could make you one-would just need your old nuts! :eek:

I'm sure someone local tp you will sort it!

BTW-don't even suggest glueing brake pipes together!-it's the sort of thing you'll get hung for on here LOL!! :wack:

which ever road you go down please tell me your not going to glue the pipe together or even apoxy the split because iff you are ime telling my missus,family,kids to keep off the roads untill you get this sorted mate :rolleyes: i cant even begin to think of a worse bodge to a car than this

hope you get it sorted which by the way is about £10 from a motor factors and a flaring kit which cant be more than £30

yeah it is a bit of a reality check that gluing them together is a big no no! that is what annoyance and desperation makes you think!

 

thanks very much for the offer manta, you're a true gent! it is a long way and hopefully i can get it sorted closer to home rather than spending the whole of my bank hol on the roads.

 

If i can find a motor factors or pumbling shop that is open tomorrow i will buy a kit but i am hoping someone will come to my aid and have a kit closer to me.

yeah it is a bit of a reality check that gluing them together is a big no no! that is what annoyance and desperation makes you think!

 

thanks very much for the offer manta, you're a true gent! it is a long way and hopefully i can get it sorted closer to home rather than spending the whole of my bank hol on the roads.

 

If i can find a motor factors or pumbling shop that is open tomorrow i will buy a kit but i am hoping someone will come to my aid and have a kit closer to me.

ime sure iff you walk into any small garage waving a £20 note on a sat morning then some young grease monkey will gladly sort it mate

£20!!!-Or some old grease monkey! :o :wack:

Just look for a proper Independent Motor spares shop. Many of them make up pipes while you wait. My local ones both do anyway.

Like Darren/Manta V8 I have my own flairing kit. I also have copper pipe and nuts. But same thing... TOOOOO far away. Soz. Tis a five minute job. Pipe is about £12 for 25metres and end nuts are cheap as chips

Reminds me of when I worked in a garage and a young guy came in and said he had just replaced his brake pipe but his brakes were still not great. Looked underneath to see he had cut out the rusty pipe only to replace it with vac pipe and at each end had put fuel pipe over the top with jubilee clips.(because he couldnt get vac pipe szed hose clip so had to put bigger pipe over the top!!). Nedless to say I demonstrated a hard brake and it split! How he got to the garage without massive failure I'll never know!

Much worse than your attempt GS!

The reason your glue never worked is cause brake fluid is not only greasy and corrosive(to paint work anyway) but its under pressure, doomed to fail, I don't know any glue that would with stand all that.

Good luck, should be a cheap job though.

Line pressue under an arse twitching stop (50kg+ pedal pressure) can be as high as 80 - 100 bar depending on the brake system so glue will never hold. As the others siad you have to get a new pipe, only question is where from. Nissan charging 80 quid is predictable but still a total joke, as Slike Pete said materials are peanuts.

Ok for what it's worth, I broke my pipe when I fitted my large discs and calipers. I took the broken copper pipe to my local car spares shop and asked them to make a new one.

 

£2.50 each was the price. I was very happy and problem solved, I actually bought 2 so I could replace the other side too ;)

 

HTH

 

Rob.

I'd just make up a flexible replacement using Aeroquip hosing.

thanks for the tips guys. I dont think i would of ever tried to stick the broken one back together i was just looking at all the possible options.

 

Anyway, got a new one made up today by my local friendly garage. They let me go in and do it myself. bunged the guy a fiver and it is all sorted!! Crisis adverted.

 

Anyway now i have a question about brake fluid. What fluid do our cars take. I have got half a bottle of Castrol Super Dot 4 in the garage and went out to buy another bottle so i could completely bleed the system but no one seems to sell it. Even halfords where i bought the stuff before didnt do it and a guy in a indie motor factors said i would have trouble finding the castrol stuff now.

 

All the ones i have seen are brandless ones and only Dot 4 or 5.1, no super dot 4. Can anyone recommend where i can find the castrol stuff or which new one to go for??

thanks for the tips guys. I dont think i would of ever tried to stick the broken one back together i was just looking at all the possible options.

 

Anyway, got a new one made up today by my local friendly garage. They let me go in and do it myself. bunged the guy a fiver and it is all sorted!! Crisis adverted.

 

Anyway now i have a question about brake fluid. What fluid do our cars take. I have got half a bottle of Castrol Super Dot 4 in the garage and went out to buy another bottle so i could completely bleed the system but no one seems to sell it. Even halfords where i bought the stuff before didnt do it and a guy in a indie motor factors said i would have trouble finding the castrol stuff now.

 

All the ones i have seen are brandless ones and only Dot 4 or 5.1, no super dot 4. Can anyone recommend where i can find the castrol stuff or which new one to go for??

good man,i can tell the missus she can go shopping now which is good as the bread was getting low :tongue: :)

get on the tesco home deliver mate. the bonus bags of capers and rice pudding rice are always a nice suprise.

 

Went for halfords dot 5.1 stuff and reading a few threads on here saying it is ok

DON'T use 5.1 unless you want to replace your fluid every few months. 5.1 is good for race cars, silicone based, very high boiling points but is highly hydroscopic (ie sucks up water and reduces boiling point). Sounds good in the shops but don't go by pure numbers, stick to Super DOT4 unless you've got a very good reason to do otherwise.

Bit misleading all this 'super' dot 4!-dot 4 is all you need.As said,5.1 is for high end use only! :)