Bleed Nipples

[Guest mkeats02]

I am going to bleed my brakes tomorrow, attempted to get the bleed nipples undone, no good, they are so corroded that the nipple head rounded off.

Any ideas??

[geoff shep]

Soak them is easing oil, and keep soaking them, then you might be able to get them out with mole mole grips or something similar. They do like to shear off though. If you get them out it's worth replacing them with new ones.

[Guest Kieran]

Run out to the garage and soak them with WD40 overnight. Decent pair of molegrips should get em moving in the morning. If they are solid, try tightening them first.

 

Good luck!!

Kieran

[Guest craig030774]

if they are a right pain weld a 6mm nut onto it and it will come off,it also does the trick if it has snapped off

[Guest Peejay]

Heat them up a bit! and try tightening first.

[Guest Battery Bill]

try tightening first.

 

A well known method but

Be very careful using this method

[Guest peter2b2002]

I tried all of the above but none worked , as my doner was an E reg i played safe and fitted new calipers on both sides, they don't cost a lot and it would be sods law to get the old niples out and find the caliper pistons were rusty or something,

cheers pete2b