HI Mumsy,
Sounds like you got the lion by the tail. You might try a industrial
fitting house. They tube fittings of every caliper. I have two in my
area, what you are looking for is a Parker or Swedgelock tube fitting.
In N. Calif. I use Valin out of Sacramento, or Oakland Valve and fitting
in Oakland of course. Sorry my tele numbers are at work. If you still
are unable to find one drop me a note and i'll do my best to bring home
a phone no. for you.
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Rick
mumsy wrote:
>
> Hi list -
>
> I bought braided steel lines to replace the three rubber brake lines on
> my '79 midget.
>
> The front two were a snap.
>
> The rear, however, isn't. When I disconnected the original rubber hose,
> it twisted the brake line in two. So I went to buy another - but I
> can't find an adapter to fit the braided steel line to the normal steel
> lines that runs up the car to the master cylinder!!! I went to 6
> different hardware and auto stores, NOBODY has the adapter I need!
>
> It's a female-female 3/16" adapter, but here's the scoop - all the "line
> joiners" that I could find had shallow fittings. The guy at NAPA went
> so far as to say in "all his years, he's never seen an adapter that had
> a deeper fitting." The PROBLEM is that the braided steel line doesn't
> have any thread for the first 1/8" or so on the end of it, so it won't
> catch the thread to this joiner and therefore I can't connect it to the
> brake line!
>
> Pictorally, here's what I have:
>
> __ ___
> / \ | |
> |//| |___| <== this is the standard 3/16 line that
> |//| |___| is coming from the front of the car
> ------> | | | | and can take the standard line joiner
> | | | | | piece that any auto store has.
> |
> This is the end connector of
> the braided steel line - it is
> the correct diameter but there's
> no thread on the tip - it can't
> fit into the shallow opening of
> the standard 3/16" connector.
>
> Can anybody help? Everyone around here tells me that there's no way I
> can connect these lines and nobody has ever heard of such a crazy
> thing. They are coming close to convincing me that I'm nuts.
>
> eric
>
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> __.o,\____ Go, Lil' Racer! * Eric C. Mumford
> /__ \ / _ ) 1979 MG Midget * mumford@rpi.edu
> (+)`---(+) http://travolta.stu.rpi.edu
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