greetings viewers air at the car guy ran into a little problem while installing these steel braided brake lines on my acura vigor and that problem was is the brake line going to this right rear side had rotted away and it's in a very difficult area and I'm not going to be able to do what I did on that forward with the Eastwood brake tool roll clip yeah I'm not Johnny Unitas anyway I need to get into this tight area and guess what Eastwood has also made a tool for flaring things in difficult areas like I have here I've already gone ahead and cut the old line and prepped everything out so that all I have to do is the flare part which that's what we're featuring in this video didn't you read the title first things first we need to slip this fitting down on to that line before we start because if not this is all for naught now some might say a compression fitting would be ideal for a situation like this however in many areas compression fittings would fail I'm going to be using a double Union flare which would be an acceptable repair don't forget that part and make sure it's facing the correct direction you want the threads to go towards the open end you might be asking me hey Eric how come there isn't brake fluid leaking out all over the floor I'll tell you why several viewers suggested that I take the brake pedal and lock it to the floor when doing work like this and nothing would leak out guess what it works I've also disconnected a negative battery cable so the brake lights weren't on the whole time so here's what comes in the tool when you get it and I already see one issue it's only three sixteenths now I've talked to east what about that they've talked about possibly coming up with other setups for other sizes but right now three sixteenths or four point seven five millimeters is what we have but this is what it comes with the tool itself also a centering tool and this is what actually makes the flare and some lubricant fairly simple and straightforward instructions on the back of how to use it but hey you're watching this video you're something else that's nice this will unscrew from this for lack of a better word I'm just going to call this a die it may be difficult to see what I'm doing inside the car but I'll demonstrate this once again on the bench so that you can get a closer look at how this works space is very limited in there so I've taken the handle off you need to loosen these two 10 millimeter or three-eighths on the outside of the die and open it up as far as you can so you can slip the brake line through the back here first one to go in is the thing that you want the brake line to stop against so I'm just going to thread that in by hand till it stops slip the brake line in the back here and tighten these down as far as I can because that's what's going to hold the brake line in place while I do the whole flaring operation now once that's done take this one out and use the concave tool and run it all the way down in on the brake line once you've done that take it out also in between I want to add lubricant to this part of the tool so once you've done it that way then you go in with the pointy end run that all the way down and you're done don't do that reverse order because you'll have to start over and you'll have less brake line to work with because you'll have to cut that end off okay I'm going to run the tool in here is all the way down till it bottoms out I'll try to position this in such a way to where I can use the handle get the handle up in here nope alright well we'll improvise on that ooh I want that to happen find some way to reach in there and hold that steady I want to bend this line too much part of the problem was is this thing bent over while I was trying to tighten things but I found that a one inch wrench goes on the outside of this nearly perfectly so it can hold it in place while I finish tightening those ten millimeters in fact this may be what I used to hold this when I run the tool down to all right I'll remove a stopper okay now remember this side of the die goes in first I'm just going to put a little bit of lubricant on the end there for it run it into place if this part of the operation goes good I'll be happy let's going again I'm going to take this one inch wrench and try to hold the tool in place 17 millimeter is the size of the tool get that on first now this all right spot them down trust me I'm a ball of nerves right now because if this doesn't work I'm not going to be pretty so far so good one more lubrication on the other side of the tool the part that sticks out and run it down once again and should we first I'm going to throw it on the floor should we be successful here we're successful all right see if it worked it looks like it worked let's get that tool off there slide the fitting up we've got bent a little bit looks like it worked I just got a I got idea I think I've come up with a plan try and bend it where I need it it worked it totally worked I'm ecstatic now I'm going to put this part of my double Union flare and place the fitting as a three-eighths just going to try to slip the wrench over through this way hold it in place and this is larger than 3/8 but I'm going to go get a socket and I'm going to twist it from out here to run the fitting down I thought it was 1/2 inch but it's closer to 12 millimeter all this work for that alright let's go make the rest of the line so we can finish this job ok I'll confess I did do it temporarily with the compression fitting for a little while but as you can see I'm going back and fixing it but the reason I'm giving this up is because I'm going to use this as my template to bend my knee line that I'm going to put in place of the old line so here's my template and I'm also going to use the bending pliers also from eastwood on this job a lot of break stuff with Eastwood to make really good break stuff and so far what I just did would not be possible without this tool you'll never get one of those other type of flare tools up in there this this is it and it worked and if we get this all together and it doesn't doesn't leak right and I'll bend the line don't don't twist the pliers just bend the line looks pretty good there's that first one it's not exact but I think it'll be adequate here's a better look at the process take the stopper put it in thread it down until it stops loosen these two slip the line in through the back until it makes contact once it makes contact tighten the two tens down make sure it's bottomed out and read that bit dye lubricant concave one first lubricant run it in once it stops take the tool out lubricate the other side put back in also stops loosen it up do tends out you're not take them out but you have to loose them up quite a bit to get them past your new Flair BAM there you go I'm going to finish my bends it's pretty close let's go take it over this car and see what we need to bend I have my firstly bent line and a test fit it looks like it needs a little bit of tweaking I'll work fine let's start on the inside first because I can so much I can access this outside so much easier now this would be a nice job for crows foot in fact it'd be a perfect job for a crows foot to better don't have any that seems to fit snug now it's a matter of bleeding out the brakes and we've covered that in other video so we'll close this one out I'm going to admit that that was a bit stressful however without that tool it never would have happened and I have before me the other tool from eastwood which is like super awesome killer 4 flaring all sizes of lines I've got a review on this that I'll post a link to in the description for you to check out but this guy here this is a way to go but it doesn't work on the car as you saw from the earlier clip this guy does work on the car as you saw in this video which is the whole reason why we made it also these line bending tools and it just so happens they have a vacuum style brake bleeder here as well all things that we're not reviewing today we're just focusing on this guy which saved my bacon anyhow you automotive questions please head over to air at the car guy comm also a link in the description to make things super easy Google+ Facebook Twitter Instagram if you wish to connect me socially closing to my videos would be safe have fun stay dirty and don't forget to play with your tools I'll see you next time