help with brake line

[glens14a]

Anyone had any problems getting the brake lines out of the callipers or off at the inner wing.
I have a set of metal lines to go on and I know its 10mm and I'm using a snap-on spanner but I'm just at the point where I'm starting to round them off.
Any tips

[Si]

Yup, i managed to do one of mine - I had to drench them in WD40 or a similar releasing penetrating fluid, and try them again after a couple of days (with periodic drenching in WD )

[glens14a]

cheers si
let the soaking commence

[Si]

Lol! just whatever you do don't force it - i did that with mine, and rounded the nut, meant my car was off the road for a week while i waited for the WD to take effect might be best to soak it all week then do it next weekend. overnight might do it though.

I've still got my rear lines to fit, i've been spraying the connections at the back for the past 2 weeks

[Colwell]

I heated them slowly with a heat gun then sprayed them with WD40 and kept repeating this till they came off, worked a treat.

[andy14a]

i belive you need a brake pipe spanner! i used some mole grips, seemed to work fine!!!!

[buckie]

Yip....brake spanner....best £4.99 I've spent this year.

[Matt_S]

Had to re-run the little one onthe drivers side and the one that crosses to passengers side. They'd both been re-run already prior to my ownership, but when I tried to undo the unions, the copper pipe just twisted itself up