brake upgrade questions

[Ben Fenner]

I wrote:A
    "Another thing (it never ends), the intructions tell you 15 ft-lbs. for
the
adapter into the caliper, but never tell you a torque setting for the brake
line onto the adapter. This takes a lot of torque to prevent leakage, much
more than you'd ever do normally."

Then Nick wrote:
    "Do you remember how much torque in ft-lbs?"

No, I didn't use a torque wrench because you have to use an opened end
wrench for this. I used the wrench until I thought I was going to round off
the corners and then I locked a big set of vise-grips on and went at it with
that. If I had to guess I'd say it was 33-38 ft-lbs. But then again, the
adapter never moved, so that makes me think I never exceeded 15 ft-lbs. It's
just the difference between the 2 ft. long torque wrench and the 8 inch long
opened ended wrench. You never know what's going on with those little
wrenchs.

-Ben
1994 Sentra SE-R

> -Nick Hadiaris
> 91 classic 203k miles
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