Last year I had an advisory for a warped disc, so I decided to replace discs and pads.
While doing so, I managed to damage a brake hose.
Today, while fitting the hoses, I managed to damage the offside rear and nearside front pipes.
Has anybody had to replace the brake pipes? If so, how much of a pain are they? ie, are they coated all the way along, and how difficult is their path?
Ideally, I'd like to just replace the ends and fit the new hoses. Am I likely to be lucky, or am I looking at complete replacement?
@Fin Always good practice to keep up to date on the Forum.
As discussed very recently:
https://www.mr2roc.org/index.php?topic=58890.msg910766#msg910766
I have replaced the offside front with a new pipe - it was painful, but it is possible
Your probably not going to be as lucky as I was.
In the 80' I had a mk 1 escort that required a replacement brake pipe, a front iirc.
I went to a local motor factor, who, of course, could not help, but another customer said he could.
I had the damaged pipe with me. We went to his home/ garage where he produced a roll of brake pipe, bending and flaring tools and he made the piece for me. No charge.
A rare Good Samaritan!
To follow up (as Joesson pointed out), I've had rather a hefty bill for mine.
My local mechanic charges £70+VAT an hour and the labour costs were 5 hours to sort in total.
In fairness, that included replacing all 4 hoses as well as the rear calipers (I supplied all of these).
But they had to rebuild the both rear brake lines entirely and partially the front.