Second time lucky?

[Erubus]

Got the mk7 going back in for a retest tomorrow. Two of the fails took a grand total of about 45 seconds to fix, most of which was taking the wheel off. It failed on rear n/s brake binding excessively and handbrake doesn't meet efficiency (or however it's worded).

When I took the wheel off, I saw that the handbrake lever on the caliper was right up to the cable stay. I gave it a scoosh with penetrating oil and it spring back straight away. I suspect when I changed the disc and pads on that side I must have pulled the handbrake before pressing the pedal. Once the lever was back in it's proper position, the wheel turned nice and easy and the handbrake lever felt much better.

The brake pipe that it failed on (it passed on it's previous MOT just before I got it, so I didn't bother to check it) fell apart when I touched it so just as well it failed.... Also a good lesson not to assume something is fine just because a tester passed it on an MOT!

It was the front driver's side. Absolutely impossible to fit without removing the engine and subframe, so I made up the repair section up to just under the servo and cut the existing one and joined them with a union. If I don't say so myself, it is a beautiful bit of pipework!

It's booked in for it's retest tomorrow lunchtime. The garage are still too busy to do the tracking but I'm "working from home" tomorrow so will take it to the local tyre fitter to get done after the MOT.

[Airthies]

Good work sorting the fails out so quick.
It is possible to replace break lines round the bulkhead without removing the engine but it's not an "easy job" by any stretch of the imagination.
Good luck with the retest.

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[Erubus]

If you bend the pipe as you go it could be done but it wouldn't look very nice. If you bought a pre-made pipe though I can't see how it's possible without dropping the engine and subframe.

Zero hour in an hour and a half then can hopefully get the tracking done to make it actually driveable haha

[Erubus]

Yay, passed. Booked in for an alignment at half three then the fun can start!

[Airthies]

I've replaced all brake pipes on one of our vans (RWD) including the two large main steel pipes from reservoir to ABS pump which come from ford preshaped. It's not by any means easy but possible by removing some of the clutter to the RHS as you look in the engine bay
Also, interestingly, you can do a full LWB with two coils of brake pipe if you cut it in the right way, and quite pleased that I managed the whole lot without joints

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[dirtydog]

I've replaced all brake pipes on one of our vans (RWD) including the two large main steel pipes from reservoir to ABS pump which come from ford preshaped. It's not by any means easy but possible by removing some of the clutter to the RHS as you look in the engine bay
Also, interestingly, you can do a full LWB with two coils of brake pipe if you cut it in the right way, and quite pleased that I managed the whole lot without joints

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I had one of the servo to abs pump pipes burst a couple of years ago, looked at it and decided that it was a job for my mechanic. Took him a couple of hours to swap both pipes