How do I fit these hoses?

[105Charlie]

Hi guys,

 

Now I know I'm probably being rather silly, but I cannot work out how the Goodridge braided hoses I just bought will fit on to my Wilwood Midilite Calipers. They are MK2 Cortina hoses for the coilover conversion on my Anglia and I was told when I bought them in Burton's they'll go straight on. The calipers were bought second hand, fitted but never used, so not sure if the fitting has been changed or not?

 

Some photos below, thanks for any help.

 

-Charlie

 

 

[skeeter]

I 'think' you need to take the two connectors out of the callipers and the braided hoses screw in as a replacement. I don't think you are trying to connect the braided hose to the already fitted connector.

 

At least that is what I would do.... although I am not an expert, but willing to have a go at these type of things.

 

Hope that makes sense.

 

S

[Vista]

Agree with the above

[105Charlie]

Yep, I think that's what needs to be done, I thought they looked like they had different thread sizes which stopped me taking them out but I'll take one out and have a look when I'm home.

[Vista]

The internal thread inside the caliper probably is a different thread to the external thread you can see on the fitting that's already in place in the caliper. Willwood are American made so will use an American thread, the external thread will be a metric or imperial thread for a brake pipe fitting.

[katana]

Wilwoods have an Internal 1/8th NPT thread and is mostly incompatible with anything commonly available! Rally Design do a compatible fitting - RD1538.

You'll have to cut the swaged end off and fit the above in its place and remove the fitting in the caliper.......................or cut the swaged end off and just fit

a Female Swivel Concave seat hose fitting - its probably an M10 thread so RD part # RD1511 - that will fit on the adaptor in the Wilwood's.

[slimrs]

Should you not have a hard copper pipe from caliper to strut then the flexi connects from that to your inner wing?

[katana]

Should you not have a hard copper pipe from caliper to strut then the flexi connects from that to your inner wing?

That's what would be there as std. but it introduces one more joint / potential leak point. A longer hose with a bulkhead fitting through the inner wing and direct to the caliper is acceptable as long as it is sufficiently 'slack' to account for steering and suspension movement - common on bikes to have single hose from each caliper back to master cylinder, it works well.