ill phil

Well long story short-
Hit a curb, I'm replacing the bent rear trailing arm. Everything is ready take off except the brake line. Brake line nut is old and soft, used a flared end wrench and its still stripping the head. Looking for someone to explain if I can re-flare the brake line tomorrow since I need to get my car running again and am not sure what re-flaring is. Thanks.

EG TYPE-R

flaring is for the actual lines themselves
unless you need to replace the lines and make new ends you will not need to do this.
to do it you will need a flaring tool. their pretty cheap and with a little practice can be done fairly easily.

ill phil

Cool, I guess I didn't elaborate enough. The nut on the hard line that accepts the soft line from the brakes is pretty much completely stripped and I may have to cut the line to put a new nut on. So at this point I take it I would reflare and put the new nut on? (with the tool of course)

elwood

Flaring tool.....pffffff.....well it would make it easy. You
just need to make the end of the line bigger so that
it wont slip out of the nut.

ill phil

Ahh, I think I'm getting ya now. Thanks guys.

gumbii

i just went to autozone and barrowed that flaring tool.... then just took it back... but what you can do is get like a scratch awl and bend the walls of the line out....