4 piston, small bolt pattern caliper rebuild

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65 Cuda 340

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Rebuilt the calipers in my 65 Barracuda (not original to the car). Hooked everything up and applied the brakes. Fluid leaked from some or most or all of the brake line fittings (been a while, can't remember how many of them leaked). Took me a while to figure out what the deal was, but turns out the brass (?) compression fittings at the bottom of the threaded brake line holes in the calipers were buggered up from the calipers having been rebuilt who knows how many times in the last fifty years. Took a look online for replacement fittings, found nothing. So I just ordered a pair of rebuilt calipers from Rock Auto. They are fine, but now I have a pair of freshly-built calipers left over that I can't use without replacing the compression fittings.

Are the fittings available? Can't imagine they wouldn't be (the rebuilt calipers I bought appear to have new fittings), but I've been unable to find them.

If they are available, is there a trick to removing/installing them?
 
Those brass fittings are called "tube seats."
They are quite hard to find, other than at the rebuilders level.
I will look thru my computer files for you, and see if i come up with anything.

You remove them by getting a longer sheet metal screw, and screw it into the center of the tube seat.
Get out your small vice grip pliers, put it under the head of the screw, get out the hammer, and hammer up it out.
Easy peasy.
Yes, it does destroy the old tube seat, but in your case, it doesn't matter.

Brake Bleeder Screw Carlson H9446 | eBay

I had this number bookmarked, but can't remember if i ever purchased these or not.
 
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Those brass fittings are called "tube seats."
They are quite hard to find, other than at the rebuilders level.
I will look thru my computer files for you, and see if i come up with anything.

You remove them by getting a longer sheep metal screw, and screw it into the center of the tube seat.
Get out your small vice grip pliers, put it under the head of the screw, get out the hammer, and hammer up it out.
Easy peasy.
Yes, it does destroy the old tube seat, but in your case, it doesn't matter.

Brake Bleeder Screw Carlson H9446 | eBay

I had this number bookmarked, but can't remember if i ever purchased these or not.

Thanks, appreciate it. The thingy's in the ebay link - seller calls them brake bleeder screws? Same thing?
 
Thanks, appreciate it. The thingy's in the ebay link - seller calls them brake bleeder screws? Same thing?
Ya know, i didn't notice that, in the heading.
No, what's pictured are tube seats, and not bleeder screws.
2 totally different looking parts, items.
 
Ya know, i didn't notice that, in the heading.
No, what's pictured are tube seats, and not bleeder screws.
2 totally different looking parts, items.

Good, I just ordered three from this seller, and another three from another one.

Thanks again for the info. :thankyou:
 
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