Hi, I have a fiesta with a new pedal box and making up new hydraulic lines for brakes & clutch but the clutch slave cylinder uses a pushfit-type of fitting, not the more familiar threaded type.

Does anyone have any info as to replacing this or options?
If I cannot find an adapter, I will need to look at flaring the tube to suit and connecting to it - what pipe flaring tool would be recommended to work well on steel pipes?

Thanks.

PS: I ask on this forum rather than a fiesta forum as people here tend to have worked more with the actual mechanicals of their cars so thanks for your help in advance.

I'm guessing it's something similar to the picture below. The push fit ones are usually teamed up with plastic tubing commonly used in the pneumatics field. Your local fluid power/hydraulics place will have a counter service and access to thousands of fittings and options to make the connection. If you take your slave and pipe along they'll sort you out in a jiffy I'm sure.

Edit: you'll need the OEM connector if it's a special like the VW one though

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[Edited on 4/4/13 by Litemoth]

Hi, I am not sure, I found this picture which may illustrate it better:

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In that case, It's a Ford specific fitting probably. I assume you have the fitting with some 3/16” (4.76mm) steel pipe sticking out of it. The cheapie flaring kits won't do the steel pipe so what I would do (locost style) is take it to a motor factors who will put a nut on and flare it so that you can connect some copper based pipe onto it (which you can flare with a cheapie flaring kit) using a joiner like this:


If you buy a joiner and some cupro-nickel pipe off them, they'll probably flare it for free. You can then flare the rest with a £15 flaring kit.

a Sykes Pickavant or similar steel pipe flaring tool will be £100 plus

I had a "bad feeling" when I saw it . Oh well, need to treat myself to a good brake flaring tool anyway .

Thanks for all the help everyone.

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