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Set it on bench, work on it a little...
Posted by RayF (more from RayF) on Mon, 8 Oct 2012 17:05:56
In Reply to: try a helicoil?, thresholdmusic, Mon, 8 Oct 2012 16:50:35
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It's pretty hard to imagine you mangled the internal original threading enough to totally ruin it by the cross threading you did.
My approach would be to set the caliper on a bench or clamp it in a vise, then take say the end of the original brake hose, the one you were replacing, and cutting the hose off it so you can work without its distraction, see if you can't get it to start in on the original threads. On the bench you can hold it straight on to the hole, and probably pick up the original threads after a try or two. If it mangles at outer end, file away the mangled part and try again.
Then run it in and out fully a few times, with oil on it. Then, maybe even the new hose you cross threaded can be made to work right in the fixed up threads. Or, maybe you'll need to buy a new hose.
If you've got enough brass you could try returning it to Nugeon and claiming it as a defective caliper - - maybe the threads in it were too loose from excess acid tanking and that's why you were able to crossthread it without knowing it. (Probably, in fact. They get these things in looking like boat anchors and soak them in acid to remove the excess rust. In so doing they lose iron as well.)
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