Build 14. Brake Hoses
To install the brake hoses, you need to first grab hold of the brake hose pack, which will contain 3 hoses, 2 for the front and 1 for the rear. My delivery didn't have these so I had to send an email to the Caterham team to get them to send one out so I could complete this part of the build!
A week later, the parts dropped on my doorstep and I put them aside to install when I get the odd 30 minutes here and there, it's not a huge task and quite a nice one to dip in and out of when you can't dedicate time to the build.
I have the uprated brakes, which means I need to use the larger copper washer and adapter. The larger washers and nuts came in a bag which was packaged with my brake pads for the rear of the car. As per usual I got all the parts together and put them in a box so I had everything to hand, and did the same with the spanners and wrenches that I would be using!.
First up was to install the adapter and washer into each brake caliper, note the ridged side of the adapter which the copper washer will sit on. This is very important to get aligned right as the caliper will leak otherwise. This is the only part that can be properly torqued up, and can be torqued up to 25Nm (which I obtained from another blog).
You can now attach the brake hose to the chassis, it needs to bend as per the first picture below so it doesn't interfere with the uprights. I actually used masking tape on the chassis to protect it whilst using spanners, but the photos show this removed. You may find that you need to bend the copper brake lines a little that are pre-installed in the chassis to get them to fit nicely on the hose. Remember to make everything fit "finger" tight first and don't force the threads when tightening up. According to another blog, the other bits should be tightened to 10Nm, but as we have no way of measuring this, I would just do them up as you think best.
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