hello I'm Eric the car guy i'm a channel on YouTube where I help people with
their auto repair issues i also help people on my website at the car
guide.com today I'd like to talk to you about blaring brake lines now if you've
ever used this type of tool here you may have been a little frustrated with the
results you've gotten but Eastwood has a better answer and i have it here in my
advice
this is the eastwood line flaring tool and I as i said i really love it it does
sizes from 316 quarter-inch 516 and three-eighths it also does 4.75
millimeter now this is the 45-degree tool that I'm using today but one of the
first things that we need to determine is here's a piece of brake line i'm
gonna flare today is what size line you're working with because you have all
these different sized tools in here you wanna make sure you use the correct one
and a quick way I found out about how to do that is to use a drill bit of the
same size this is a 316 strobe it as you can see it fits on here quite nicely you
can also measure this brake line and accomplish the same thing I'm just found
you know just taking a drill bit and sizing it up might make it a little bit
easier but we're going to put a double flare on this with this Eastwood tool we
will get the three sixteenths for 75 millimeter die here and put down into
the tool
there's two sides to this you can make a different type of flair I want the
angled side as well i'm going to be using here and before we get started I
want to sort of dip burr the end of this I might take a little piece of sandpaper
and try to get off any rough edges that might have happened during cutting for
starters and then one more thing i'm going to do when doing this process when
a little bit of lubrication what Eastwood recommended in their manuals
just a little bit of anti-seize so i'll just put a little bit of anti-seize on
the end there to get things going and moving smoothly then you just take the
line put it inside the die and make sure when you put the other half on that it
also has the
hold hands drop it down in there pushing the locking pin and I'm gonna leave it
sticking out just a little bit like that for first operation now what I'll do
there
there are different on this die here you can see there are different operations
for different-size lines and this is the 01 this is just a flat top here by the
way they also make it 37 degree die like this you can get if you wish to do
37-degree flares instead of these 45 we're going to start with a0 put it down
like that and remember you don't want to tighten this down all the way yet just
going to take the tool and run it flush so this way we know that the line is
flush inside the tool and now i'm going to tighten it down now we're doing a
three-sixteenths line here so as you can see I've got 3 16 and that's Opie 1 i'm
going to assume that stands for operation and simply do the same process
just pull on the tool until it bottoms out when it does you're done and now
what you've done is you've actually created a bubble flare inside of here so
if you just wanted a bubble Claire you're done but if you want a double
flare which is what i'm doing here is 316 up to right there and same thing
just gonna pull the lever again until it bottoms out and I'm done and i just made
a perfect layer
tap it a little bit get it to come out but that's what we get for our trouble
perfect flower on the end there certainly makes the job easier
well there you have it a perfectly flare double flare and this works on like a
brake lines that type of fuel lines anytime you need to create a flare
I've I always reach for this tool anyway I am at the car guy as I said you can
find me on youtube onto the eric the car guy channel or over there at the car .
com state rd everybody
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