Grrrr... stripped brake fittings!

[mattster03]

Well I went to replace my stock rubber hoses with stainess lines yesterday.  Got to my very last one, the right rear and wouldn't you know it, I rounded the flare fitting that ties into the RR rubber line.  This is using a proper line wrench and everything!  Has anyone ever tried JB-welding on a larger nut in this situation?  I was thinking I can get the line out of the tee upstream in the system and slide a bigger nut (just big enough so that the ID matches the OD of the flare fitting) along the whole line and get it to the rounded fitting.  Let me know what you think or if you have a better idea than vice grips.

[Troux]

If I were you, I would just use some tight vice grips. When the next time you'll need to unscrew that thing, anyways?

[Plex]

cut it off, new fitting and flare it, there is enough slack in the line to do it without replacing the whole hardline 

[shampoop]

I have some pliers very similar to this that work awesome on even completely rounded brake lines.



http://www.channellock.com/GL10-GRIPLOCK-Plier.aspx

Also, what brand of flare nut wrench were you using? They are one area where you need something high quality.

[mattster03]

Hey guys, just to follow up... I ended up getting it loose with a vice grips as suggested.

[Jordan Innovations]

Glad you were able to get it, sometimes they're in nasty spots where you can't get vise grips on there...  For the record, this is the correct solution:

cut it off, new fitting and flare it, there is enough slack in the line to do it without replacing the whole hardline