Front brake flexi replacement

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Gentlefolk,

Can anyone remind me if you need to take the brake caliper off to replace the front brake flexis on a Turbo? Normally I would use it as an excuse to clean up the calipers etc, but they were only done a couple of months ago... I have a feeling that it has to come off anyway to save the line winding up like a corkscrew!

Many thanks,

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[bmnelsc]

I believe the practice of unscrewing the caliper from the brake hose is intended to eliminate stress on the flexi hose (e.g. you don't undo the flexi to hard pipe connector unless you intend to change the flex pipe - too much risk of damaging the connector and therefore having to replace the flex pipe anyway). So - as you are replacing the flex pipe - just undo it from the steel pipe first and then you can unscrew it from the still mounted caliper. Fitting the new one - do the caliper side first.

 

[Mr968]

I concur, at the caliper end it is a male and at the chassis end it is a female which the hard line screws into as it has a male swivel fitting so the mail swivel is undone first and done up last