Does anyone sell caps / plugs for brake lines?

I'm swapping out my rear drums for discs and can't be a*sed bleeding the whole system!

Can't you use a clamp on the flexi hose?

Or maybe you're changing those as well??

Alternatively, could you fit a bleed nipple into the female fitting on the end of the brake pipe?

Just plug the open end of the pipe with a squashed foam earplug, that’ll stop the rest of the fluid leaking out.

and poly bag over the resevoir to keep a bit of vacuum

Get a piece of brake pipe and swage an end on it. Fit the relevent nut and then squeeze the other end flat to seal it.

Poly bag over the res' secured with the cap or an elastic band slows down the flow but won't stop it. If you do use one don't forget to remove it; that gives very odd braking.

adrian

you can make some with old pipe unions just weld the hole up and screw on
if you want to plug off male ends use a female and vice versa
or get old pipe with union that fits what you want to plug cut of pipe at about 2" flatten pipe voila pipe plug
Ray
ooh ^^ must type faster
[Edited on 17/12/09 by RAYLEE29]

[Edited on 17/12/09 by RAYLEE29]

For short term as already mentioned fill the resevoir up to the very brim and secure a polybag tightly over the top so as to leave no airspace, and secure the bag with an elastic band to form an air tight seal.

Thanks good people!

Plug the line with a golf tee.

if you buy big hooks that screw into walls to hang fings from from B&Q, the threaded ends are covered by a small bung.

I've a couple knockin round somewhere but I doubt the post will get them to you for you to be able to do something useful with them.

Have a word with your local motor factors, they may have some male 10mm plugs as fitted to some master cylinders to blank off unused ports. For female blanking caps just weld up the hole in a female nut, less fiddly than using one with a piece of pipe IMHO.