7mm at the rear, which are the ones most likely to snap, and 10mm at the front, never had one of these snap yet.

WD40 unfortunately wont do much at all, you can get freezing spray that will help.

if they have had the dust caps on them though you're usually fine

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Bring on the Trumpets.

You can get awkward rear bleed nipples out successfully if you don't just go at it hammer and tongs.

Take the time to apply plus gas to penetrate the nipple thread daily starting plenty in advance, tap the nipple square on with a hammer, and/or apply heat to the nipple and use plus gas to cool off. (Note, plus gas is flammable so don't do it more than once). When you're ready to do, use a good fitting 6 sided socket to crack it off making sure you're not canting over.

If you can be bothered, it's worth putting PTFE tape or copper grease on the nipple threads to help you in the future.

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Night Blue VW Golf GTD
Bianca LBSC Rallye - Track/Road Slag Project Thread
Sparkling Silver Mini Cooper D - Super Dooper - (The other half's wheels)

Today i checked all the bleed nipples, none at all were seized or sheared, which is a massive bonus.
I have 4 spares now

I'm replacing the normal brake lines with some braided ones, i went out and bought these in preperation:
clicky
clicky

But it appears that some of the unions on the car need a 11mm flare nut spanner
My options are to get the old 1.4 fired up tomorrow and source one or take my angle grinder to one of my 11mm ring spanners, which i guess will severely weaken it

Am i right in thinking that where the copper brake lines meet the current rubber hoses only the union at the copper line side needs undoing?
The side with the rubber hose looks very awkward to get to to hold in some places.

If anyone else has replaced theirs and has any hints and tips on how to prevent as much damage as possible i would appreciate it.

I have been searching for plusgas and the local machine mart didnt have it neither did gsf, is there any other shop which will be open on a sunday where you can get it from?

Is it wise to use PTFE tape on all the joints and bleed nipples when im putting the system back together?

Cheers

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Thanks.

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I used PTFE tape on the threads, but purely because it enables vacuum bleeding to work faultlessly with no thread leaks. If you are pump bleeding, copper grease is fine.

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Night Blue VW Golf GTD
Bianca LBSC Rallye - Track/Road Slag Project Thread
Sparkling Silver Mini Cooper D - Super Dooper - (The other half's wheels)

I managed to get it all done yesterday, one flare nut started to round so i got the mole grips on it and saved it, all the others were relatively easy to do.

The brakes feel a little spongey so i will re-bleed them next weekend, i treated the calipers to new bleed nipples too with a nice coating of copper slip on the threads so hopefully any future work on them will be much easier with less chance of breaking the nipples.

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Just found out they are M7 x 1.

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Peugeot 306 GTi-6
2000 (X), Moonstone

Ok cheers, I've just bought some so hopefully they're correct.

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Peugeot 306 GTi-6
2000 (X), Moonstone

Only if you can get the old ones out, else it's new caliper time

I bought a few spares in bulk and replace them every now and again as a matter of course to try and stop it happening. As mentioned in this thread, it's only normally the rears that are the problem.

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Just to confirm, the ones I bought (M7x1) were correct for anyone wishing to buy any.

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Peugeot 306 GTi-6
2000 (X), Moonstone

Yup.

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I recently went through a seized/snapped bleed nipple on the rear,a guy ended up getting it out finally and worked his magic but the end result was the new nipple is like a loose tooth ; ( so looks like the caliper is dead.car still up on stands while I get the replacement calipewr on.that was the first attempted aswell btw now im panicking about the other 3

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Laces out Dan