Getting a brake hose insert in - help a stressed head!

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Getting a brake hose insert in - help a stressed head!

10 posts & 3 voices | Started 6 months ago by RDL-82 | Latest reply from bigyinn

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RDL-82 - Member

Hi all,

Save me from swearing and crying!
I've just done the front brake no problems, cut hose, insert in with a few taps, back together, jobs a good one. The rear however is determined to have me upset and in a strop, try as I might I can not get the insert to go in the last 5mm-ish. I've hit it, pushed it and failing that called it all sorts of names before pleading with it. It's still not budged
So has anyone got any tips or tricks I can try before I go to the shop tomorrow and let them get mad with it.

Its a Shimano set up btw.

Cheers

Posted 6 months ago #
RealMan - Member

The insert into the cable? Try squeezing the cable with a pair of pliers to get it nice and round, then use something pointy to open up the end a little. Then put the hose in a vice and give the insert some taps with a hammer. Sorted.

Posted 6 months ago #
RDL-82 - Member

Done all that hence the stress, I know it's not (or at least shouldnt be) but its as if it's just too fat. Just stuck now.

Posted 6 months ago #
RealMan - Member

Can you get it out? Maybe recut the hose a cm or two down, then give it another go.

Posted 6 months ago #
bigyinn - Member

If you've got the 2 yellow blocks that came with the brakes, you put the hose in there, clamp them in the vice and then tap the barb in with a hammer. Leave about 10mm hose sticking out the end of the blocks so you're not compressing the bit where you're shoving the barb.

Posted 6 months ago #
RDL-82 - Member

Yeah cut it a bit lower and very tediously cut the insert out, exactly the same don't fancy cutting anymore hose as I'll be approaching it being close to too short.
Leave it until the morning now, getting fed up and that's just a recipe for disaster.

Posted 6 months ago #
bigyinn - Member

Oh and could try warming up the end of hose with boiling water to make it a little more pliable.

Posted 6 months ago #
RDL-82 - Member

Would that not be risky with getting the oil contaminated so to speak, or we talking flushing it out and starting again?

Posted 6 months ago #
RDL-82 - Member

Virtual pint and mucho thanks to 'bigyinn' for the hot water idea. Insert in, just gonna flush the fluid through just incase now.
Calm and happy again

Posted 6 months ago #
bigyinn - Member

Yay, I do occasionally have useful ideas!

Posted 6 months ago #

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