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The tool you need for flaring brake pipes in situ, is the Sykes Pickavant Flaremaster 2, a hand held flaring tool. I have one, they are not cheap, but work well in confined spaces.


John Simpson.

Grease Monkey wrote:The tool you need to borrow for flaring brake pipes in situ, is the Sykes Pickavant Flaremaster 2, a hand held flaring tool. I have one that you can borrow, they are not cheap, but work well in confined spaces.


John Simpson.

There, just corrected that for you John.

TerryG wrote:hmm, my local garage quoted me £120 to replace all my brake lines. i'll keep an eye out and see what that tool goes for. If it goes up much more it may work out cheaper to get it done "properly"
thanks for the advice all.

If they only want that much to replace them I would let them do it. As every one has said there is no problem with joining them but steel is a bitch to get a good flare on even with a good quality tool. Sykes are definately the only tool I would use (not come across anything that equals it yet) but the price of them reflects that.

I've used and sold all sorts of hand held pipe flaring tools over the years.None of them are any good for steel pipes.I use an old and very heavy Sykes Pickavant tool clamped in a bench and in my opinion using anything else is a waste of time.