Thread: brake bleeding question

Originally Posted by Scottydoggs

its just the diameter thats different.

you can buy or rent the double flair tool. sears sells a good one for like 50 bucks irrc. harbor freight has a 20 dollar one, but it may not cut it on the larger firmer lines. may need a tube bender too. but those are cheap.

the words i cant do that should not be said. cutting out old lines and replacing them is the norm for a older car.

as i said , the guy isn't a certified mechanic and openly admits he has a lot to learn. i think he was hired to more or less assist the real mechanic (who quit and all his tools went with him), and was mostley given the less "technical" jobs like fluid changes and brake jobs.they don't do a bunch of "public" work. the owner is some kind of fed ex contractor or something and employees fed ex drivers and they work on fed ex labeled vehicles.
i took the car to him because i know he won't screw me like garages are well known to do. i worked at a firestone (not as a mechanic) many moons ago , and i seen first hand the ways they happily ripped customers off. everything from charging them for services they never did , to creating problems themselves just so they could charge customers to fix the problem they created (cutting hoses and such). i even seen them take still functioning shocks off a vehicle that they convinced the customer she needed new ones and cleaned and painted those used shocks and sold them as new to someone else. these crooks got an instant erection everytime a female customer came in. not because they thought they were attractive , it was because they were easy targets to run their cons on. lol