ed
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My Corsa is getting on to be 12 years old now. As I have taken nearly everything off the car and it will shortly be sitting on axle stands for a while I figured I may aswell pull the brake lines out too and replace them.
As I understand you buy copper brake line in coils. Is it an easy enough job to get it all straight and fitted neatly? I understand you need special tools to cut the line and to bend it. I'm going to replace the flexable hoses too with some braded ones just to finish the job off too 
Any advice will be greatly appriciated.
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Robin
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Registered: 7th Jan 04
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its simple, but like you say, you need a special cutter, and bender.
if you make sure you've got loooooads of pipe, you'll be fine, because you WILL fuck up 
you'll also need a selection of flanges for the ends, but they'll probably come with the tools.
as long as you take your time, it'll be fine, its not hard, just fiddly, and time consuming.
worth doing though, especially when the car is in bits
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Dave A
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you can also run the lines more neatly than vaux did by hiding them behind the bulkhead rather than them trailing them through the engine bay.
fiddly job, I got mine done in a day inc fitting new 4pots and braided hoses.
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ed
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Thats a good idea. I am routing the wiring a lot more neatly too, so if I can hide the brake lines too then I will be a happy bunny
Rob, it's about £20 for 25 feet of the stuff. I think that'll be enough. Though my mind doesn't work in Imperial measurements
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Robin
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yeah, you'll probably end up using most of it, you'll definitely end up bending a pipe the wrong way, or making i too short
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