it's Friday fool and you need this tool
welcome back to the glorious episode of it's Friday fool you need this tool my
name is Kyle Voss every Friday I bring you a tool a tool
that I use here in this shop or that has been featured on this channel this
episode is going to be kind of a twofer since I missed one last week this week's
tools are for blinds so you got all kinds of lines you got break lines you
got fuel lines you got nitrous lines pretty much any line that needs a pretty
much any line that needs to be bent and double flared I've got the tools for you
all right so bear with me I tried to find some brake line in the shop
couldn't find any brake line that I didn't want to mess up I do have this
nitrous line laying around and the first tool I've got for you is a bender so
this is a small tube bender it's made for bending brake line meant fuel lines
with it really any kind of hard line aluminum or steel you can bend with this
thing here some of the stainless stuff might be a little bit tough but maybe
you could get it done with this this tool works very simply the TV just goes
in on the top here this little piece holds it actually the C tubing this goes
in the top here this little piece holds it and then you're ready to bend you
just kind of roll it around makes a nice smooth Bend for you and makes things
look neat nice and clean and as you know that's what I like I like nice neat and
clean this name would come in really handy if you're doing say brake lines
under the hood for line lock
putting a line lock in doing your run your running some brake lines under your
hood you want those to be nice and neat and precise this tool will help you do
that so just ending it with your hands and having it all wonky looking he's a
good vendor everything the nice neat and clean call to use this for any kind of
hard vacuum lines you might be running 2-way skates or anything else I know a
lot of guys run stainless vacuum lines on show cars to make it look cool this
can also be used to be in any kind of hard fuel lines that you might be
running aluminum some steel think the popular thing to do is the aluminum line
this thing could bend it not sure what size this goes up to maybe three-eighths
half inch I don't know the next tool that I have for you guys is use for what
you do once you have the line routed and run and all nice meat and clean once you
use your bender and did it the way you want it you have to terminate does lines
in the end and they say fuel fitting something similar to this one here or a
brake line that needs to be terminated into a break fitting regardless of what
you have to do most of the time you have to put a double flare on it so this
little line here has this little flare piece on it it's technically a double
flare and I'm getting ready to show you why it's a double flare but this tool
this double flare can be done with this tool so the tool is the double flare kit
this kids pretty nice it does everything from 3/16 up to 1/2 inch quarter inch
5/16 and 3/8 to pretty much cover everything that you need to use it for
this kit works pretty easy so it has this gripper this actually grips line
itself so basically if I was doing this line I would fasten it in this gripper
once you have the line fastened in the gripper obviously you wouldn't want to
do a line that's already been double flared just say this thing was cut off
nice and flush all you do is you take the appropriate Slayer die okay
there's instructions on this thing the thickness of this flared eye is how much
you want this thing to stick out then you flip the flared eye over it
basically sits inside there then you just grab this piece here which kind of
grabs onto this gripper and it just tightens down right in the center of
that flared eye just like that all right you tighten that thing all the way down
till the flared eye bottoms out that's going to give you your first flare once
you have the first flare you undo this so if you dive back out put it back in
the pack and then the second flare is done with just this piece by itself so
what's going to happen is the first one's going to make like a diamond
shaped flare on that tube then you just take this piece put it right in in the
tubing tighten it down what it's going to do is take the diamond and turn it
into a double flare so basically which is collapsing itself on itself hope all
that makes sense hoping Italy's use pretty simple like I said the kit itself
has directions right here in the lid at least on this kit it does pretty simple
I'm sure they all have directions on the lift around the lid but it's a pretty
simple process that you can do it's really good for making new brake lines
you know a lot of times to build a new hot rods or you're putting line locks in
are you putting drift brakes in you got to make these lines now I will tell you
the advanced and those type of places carry brake lines that are preassembled
I already have the double flares already have the fittings there's two things
you're going to run into either you're not going to get the section of brake
line this is the proper size they can be too long or too short or what it's
probably more likely to happen is you won't be able to get the brake line that
has the fittings on it that you need okay so what's going to happen is when
you're building these custom brake line setups you're going to need one side
spinning on one side you're going to need another size fitting on another
side and you're not going to be able to find that conversion on the shelf at
advanced Auto what you have to do is basically buy a brake line that has one
of the things on one side that you need buy some spare fittings of the other
side that you need once you get the brake line home you cut it loose you put
the new fitting on you flare it and you're ready to go be sure put the
fitting on before you flare it the common mistake that I may have done once
or twice alright guys there you go this week's tools the tube bender and the
tube double flare tool go check them out I'll drop links in the description for
both of these you can actually get these double flare tools in a hydraulic setup
also if you're doing a lot of it I'll put those I will link those as well just
so you can check them out as always thank you for joining me I'll see you
guys some more this week it's Friday fool
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