1966 404 Coupé Injection Restoration

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I used this new S.U.R.&R. PFT409 brake flaring tool.....

....to make my first ever brake line:

And wow is that tool ever amazing!  Perfect DIN bubble flare every time.  The pistol grip tool is hydraulic.  Expensive but worth it if only for the knowledge that I can't mess up.

This line is the one that connects the two front Thermostable brake cylinders.

12-1-2019

Brake lines are done, except for one little one that I need to buy two more unions to make.

Jute-backed vinyl sound deadening glued onto cowl panel today. I also cleaned up the front brake cylinder springs and reassembled the rear brake proportioning valve.

12-4-2019

The fittings aren't brass, they're cadmium plated steel.  Brass is too soft.  The procedure for working on brake lines is well known to me.  The main outstanding item is that the Hydrovac booster needs to be sent out early in 2020 for a rebuild in the eastern USA.  It was NOS in 1993 but has been on the car for 26 years.

A new OEM master cylinder and some additional brake kits and sealing washers are on their way to me from Germany as we speak.  Then I'll have all I need to complete the work.