arachnofreak
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- 1999
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- Ford Ranger XLT
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I recently purchased Fine Line stainless steel kit for 1999 Ford Ranger and have installed them across the truck along with new flexible hoses and brake components. Everything sealed up just fine except I had a leak at the connection to the proportioning valve on the side of master cylinder. There was also a leak on the connection to the RABS unit as well but it was eventually resolved through loosening and tightening which I read was necessary for stainless lines.
I put quite a bit of torque on these fittings as you can tell and was never able to get them to stop leaking when I disassembled everything last night I found that the flares on the tubing were deformed probably from the amount of torque and I began inspecting the seats of the fittings that were problematic.
I have limited experience so looking for some input on this issue. I think the seat inside of the RABS valve looks okay to me? but the one inside of the master cylinder proportioning valve looks pretty torn up. I have a new line coming in I believe I never had it seated quite straight when I was tightening it being that it was a short line and had a lot of tension between the two connections I should have made some adjustments to help seat more straight.
Basically I am wondering if these fittings look like they would seal or if I need to address the seats inside of them. I sure hope the RABS unit is fine being that it is pretty much impossible to locate replacement part for but the proportioning valve on master cylinder appears to be able to acquire replacement material would that be necessary.
I have ordered some copper flare gaskets from Parker Hannifin to use with the new line hopefully will address some of the nonconformities I created with my heavy hand. Any advice would be great.
I put quite a bit of torque on these fittings as you can tell and was never able to get them to stop leaking when I disassembled everything last night I found that the flares on the tubing were deformed probably from the amount of torque and I began inspecting the seats of the fittings that were problematic.
I have limited experience so looking for some input on this issue. I think the seat inside of the RABS valve looks okay to me? but the one inside of the master cylinder proportioning valve looks pretty torn up. I have a new line coming in I believe I never had it seated quite straight when I was tightening it being that it was a short line and had a lot of tension between the two connections I should have made some adjustments to help seat more straight.
Basically I am wondering if these fittings look like they would seal or if I need to address the seats inside of them. I sure hope the RABS unit is fine being that it is pretty much impossible to locate replacement part for but the proportioning valve on master cylinder appears to be able to acquire replacement material would that be necessary.
I have ordered some copper flare gaskets from Parker Hannifin to use with the new line hopefully will address some of the nonconformities I created with my heavy hand. Any advice would be great.
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