brake flexi hoses

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brake flexi hoses

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Not sure why I'm struggling with this (again) but there has to be an easy way of getting the brake flexi hoses off, but if there is I don't know it.

Sometimes they seem like they just drop off like its dead easy and sometimes I'm fighting with the things all day. Got the rear one to change on the Fury, so your tips on this gentlemen please.
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If they are that corroded they are difficult to get off perhaps all the hardlines should be replaced as well..... :shock:
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hardlines look fine. Its a california car and everything is really rust free (except the outer panels where the sun got to it) I think I'm just some kind of mitten handed idiot when it comes to some apparently simple straight forward jobs.
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Can you borrow a flaring tool? Is there enough length on the new hose to get away with cutting the hard pipe behind the join and re-flare the end? (If that makes any sense :? )
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you can buy a special spanner for brake pipe fittings,its like a ring spanner with a slot cut out of it
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yes but don't use them for undoing normal,very tight nuts!!!

(2 knuckles have grown back OK thanks for asking!!!)
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