showcrop
Well-known Member
I have never seen the like of this. I was changing a rear wheel cylinder on my old roadster yesterday and neither end of the steel line would turn even with a brake line wrench. I cut the end at the cylinder, then went at the one on the axle with vise grips. The flare fitting is steel and the tee is brass. Well that tee just didn't want to release the flare fitting. It turned extremely hard all the way out. I kept re-applying penetrating oil and turning the fitting back in a little. The tubing was loose in both the fitting and the adapter the whole way. I was expecting to find threads rusted at the very end and buggered threads but when it finally freed up which wasn't until the last half turn, the threads were good. I was able to thread a new adapter in without a wrench! It took me over an hour for one stupid fitting.
