Brake Resourvoir Feed Lines, Inserting the Feed Lines into the Master Cylinder Options

[NS914]

I expect the more experienced among you will know this but, I literally just put mine together yesterday. Much easier than I thought.

I had heard that you need to drop the Master Cylinder in order to press the lines in place and in fact tried that out....as it turned out the most effective aspect of this exercise was to swab a little brake fluid seals...the feed lines dropped in place with no fuss at all.

I hope this helps someone or at the very least makes you aware its not that big a deal at all. Grant

[jmitro]

I bought the new plastic reservoir feed lines from PMB; trying to insert the steel barbed fittings into the plastic is proving to be difficult. Any suggestions?

by the way...don't heat the plastic lines; they just melt and distort. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

EDIT.....I finally got the plastic lines over the barbed fittings. Just requires brute force.
Sequence (master cylinder and reservoir both removed from car):
1. After removing the barbed fittings from the MC, I slid the rubber floorboard grommets over the plastic lines
2. put the plastic lines on a workbench and used some vice grips on the metal fittings (avoiding the barbs) and "screwed" the barbs into the plastic lines until they were fully seated
3. plastic lines and barbed fittings were then fed through the frunk floor from above, metal fttings then fully seated into the MC.
4. MC bolted in place, rubber grommets seated into the frunk floor

Hope this helps someone (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)