I tried to go at it and see if I can work on my brakelines again but the nut still won't budge.. last year one of the nuts got kind of stripped. I've tried everything including liquid wrench spray and still nothing... its like whoever put my car together in the factory decided to put threadlock on it anyone got any ideas?

heres a pic of the nut thats stripped

i don't want to pay $1000+ to get it fixed from the dealer just to fix my brakelines

 

i used a 10mm flare and it got stripped... might try 9mm and see

 

W3RD on the Vice grips...they will do the trick for sure...

-Zoeb

 

I take it your replacing brake lines? If so, just use the cut-the-mounting-bracket trick as shown on www.scoobymods.com and slide it off. No worries if you mangle stuff, as long as it isn't the strut body.

 

what "cut-the-mounting-bracket trick"?? i don't have probems with the mount.. i have problems with the nut that attaches the rubber brakeline to the hard brakeline on the chasis

vice grips didn't work... it stripped it more even those robot hand super vicegrips that my friend had these suckers are on tight!! 9mm flare is having problems trying to fit over the nut... hopefully it will

 

This one...



You should be able to just pry the line out that way.

 

yes i'm going the correct way...

"lefty loosy righty tighty"

 

dude... look at the pic i attached... thats my problem... not the bracket on the strut... i'm changing the brakelines so even if i didn't cut that i would just slip it through the whole.. beside i have v5/6 struts and the thing is already cut

 

Doh! Not paying close enough attention. Pulling it off though will let you get super-mega pliers on it and twist the upper section off maybe?

 

try the vice grips again, and get some of the rubber grip stuff people use around the house or those things people use to open bottle caps, ive used those on stripped nuts with my vices and it's worked.

 

i found some heavy duty vice grips and it worked! thanks guys finally its off