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Smart ForTwo 451 New Rear Brake Pipes AND Have We Fixed The Pedal Travel Problem?
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- čas přidán 13. 04. 2024
- Smart ForTwo 451 New Rear Brake Pipes AND Have We Fixed The Pedal Travel Problem?
I bought ANOTHER Smart Car ... this time a 2011 Smart ForTwo Night Orange edition. One of only 235 ever made!
Why? Well because my Smart 450 is getting on in its life and the colour ... well I just fell in love with it.
In this video Dad and I find a leaky rear brake pipe and so fabricate some more - we also bleed the brakes and hopefully find and fix the illusive brake pedal travel issue WITHOUT having to bleed the ABS system.
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Thanks for watching folks! What do you think? Problem solved?
Well done, gents. I really loved this one. Concise, funny and informative 👌🏼😀
Thanks Frank! We are glad you enjoyed it! Dad's become the overnight star i fear!
@@JonCoupland I think Laurel & Hardy finally have found worthy successors 😂😉
@@fhwolthuis 😆😆
Well done Jon and Pete and a great video as ever great skill to get those pipes bang on and fingers crossed it’s solved the braking issue! All the best Daniel
Thanks Daniel
Used a few different flaring tools over the years but bought one of these about 4 years ago and it's been very good especially using it on a vehicle bit hard work on steel pipes but does the job.
Ah brilliant!
Job jobbed! Good work chaps. Wish I had a workshop like that. Oh and the epic skills to use it properly :D
Me too!
Did my Rover 75 in copper 9 years ago. Fit and forget about it then and one less problem with MOTs
Absolutely 😊
Lovely job (and milk bottle) :D
😂 many thanks
Brilliant, you found the problem, I would say 🙏 it's bleeding the brakes I always find hard , just don't like to do it 😅 ... takecare guys , great to see 👌
Many thanks! Fingers crossed that's solved the problem
I've just had to make a new flare on a rear brake pipe on my 2004 E46, using an almost identical hand tool to yours. The BMW uses DIN flares though, not SAE, when joining the hard pipes into the flexible hoses. I'm surprised that Smart use the SAE ones. Were the existing union nuts definitely SAE ones, with a slightly concave shoulder? The DIN union nuts have a flat shoulder that screws up against a flat base of the flare. Good work on the video! Hope the new pipes will give you many years of good service :)
They certainly were :) thanks for watching
That’s a neat flaring tool.
I’ve done brake pipes myself in the past, borrowed a tool
Easy job, as long as you don’t forget to put the fittings on before flaring!
Absolutely 😂
This video should come with a parental guidance warning!
"I pumped it until it went firm & then all this white foamy stuff came out!"
😱🤣🤣👍👍
Oh my 😂
Road test with your dad is next holding the camera. 0 - 60 etc
Road test will certainly be coming soon 😊
100 10 per cent 👌👌more 🙏, can't wait for next 1👌👌
Many thanks. Plenty to come still
I reckon maybe just jacking the car up just a bit higher allowed the “trapped wind” to find its way out of the pipes…. many motorbike rear brakes are very tricky to do, sometimes you have to unbolt the cylinders and wave them around a bit….
Yes that's entirely a possibility!
I bought a couple rolls of the copper brake pipe from my local motor factors. It's copper and Zinc. Mix Quenfer I believed it is called. I hate the smell of break fluid. That was the way I was taught with a bit of string. 😂 What normally happens is you make a great flare and forget to put the end on it 😂. Good brake tool around £35 i believe i have a couple of them. One here and one at my brother's. I taught my brother because he was getting burst pipes he lives on the west coast of Scotland i live on east next too the sea. 😂. I hope your learning Jon 😂. I think poor Mr HubNut good do with your Dad for a fortnight 😂😂. Think the brake pedal will be better the fluid looked a bit yuck. I did my freinds Audi TT for him with VCDS. Just to cycle the Abs pump. Great work 👍
Thanks for watching. Ive got a terrible sense of smell (so has Dad) so the fluid isnt an issue to me! Good tip about remembering to put the end on! Rookie mistakes can happen there. I've been following Ian's progress (or lack of sadly) with his Smart 450 - Dad could do with a motorbike busmans holiday to Wales! I can confirm the pedal issue is now seemingly fixed (but now the pedal is squeaking!) J
@@JonCoupland Av been elbow deep in an Astra h with timing chain or head gasket issues. Don't you just love car's 😂
@@AliMackMechanical sounds a fun weekend 😆😬
@@JonCoupland Am 45 I feel like an old man now😂😂. Day of it today take the head away tomorrow get it skimmed lots of cleaning to be done . I should have stuck to my 800s😂🤣🤣
@@AliMackMechanical will be great when done though 😊
great job
Cheers Chris ☺️
Great video but I think it’s now time for poor dad to have a lifting ramp hopefully a sponsor will donate one for the channel to save dad working off the floor
That would be fantastic! We have considered a few ramp options. I'll have to keep saving up my YT Channel revenue for now 😊
Reckon you’ve cracked it 👍 🤞Good you found the leak in the garage, could have been a fresh underpants moment on the road.
Absolutely!
I bought the same tool, made a couple of practice pipes. Not sure about the difference between single and double flares... I also got a pipe bender as I would probably kink the pipe 🙄
I like the re using nuts and milk bottle. I have a sauce bottle for when I will bleed the brakes 😊
Ah brilliant! We've made 4 pipes now with it to much success! Not sure Dad has a pipe bender in his toolbox - might have to treat him!
Dads very protective over his milk bottle!
A single flare is what is shown at 17:19, the end of the pipe flares out then then back in. To create a double flare you first form a single flare, and then perform another operation to push the end of the pipe in with a conical tool creating a cone shaped flare but with the pipe folded back in on itself creating double the thickness.
@@ferrumignis good advice and explanation 👍
@ferrumignis how do you know which one you need? That's my problem, have the gear but not enough experience to know what's what....
@@terryatkinson3182 You know by looking at the end of the original pipe that you are copying, or failing that look at the component that the pipe is fitted to. If it's designed for a double flare the threaded hole will have a convex seat at the bottom (i.e. the seating area that the pipe mates to sticks out). Something designed for a single flare has a concave seat.
I must have replaced 100 feet or more of brake pipes air bubbles get trapped in abs pumps and they difficult to get out they need the system cycled either by software or if you know what your doing you can put power to the abs module
The only way I found worked on a 450 Smart without the scan tool to open the ABS valves is to hook up an easybleed and then perform a conventional manual bleed procedure whilst the easybleed is hooked up. Neither work on their own, but together they do.
@@ferrumignisthere's always a way round it but once you get a bubble trapped under one of the valves in the abs it an be a pain to et rid of
We managed to get the ABS to fire and thankfully it got rid of a couple of BIG gulps of air - the next step would have been an MB Star machine :)
you need to get a smart crossblade
I'd absolutely love one! (But at nearly 20K ... i don't think i will have that chance)
Save a lot of money this way.
Absolutely
Need new pads and discs on my Fiat 500 too lol car is becoming a money pit spent £3grand buying it and now have put nearly £1000 into repairing it , the dodgy dealer i bought it from I have reported to the Motoring Ombudsman so hopefully Mr Agussi of A and A Farnham will be getting told straight , give a partial refund or be shut down ! lol
Pads and discs are consumable items, not a fault.
@@ferrumignis Gearbox though 😱 that's what costosy of the £1000 in repair work
@@christineayres7199 my Abarth jumped out of revesre if pointing downa hill,from new... apparently they all do that
Oh no! Fingers crossed you get sorted!
@@JonCoupland cheers 🥂 Jon ☺️🙏