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
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.
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.
Can you get it out? Maybe recut the hose a cm or two down, then give it another go.
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.
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.
Oh and could try warming up the end of hose with boiling water to make it a little more pliable.
Would that not be risky with getting the oil contaminated so to speak, or we talking flushing it out and starting again?
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 🙂
Yay, I do occasionally have useful ideas!