Eastwood Line Flaring Tool Review

[EricTheCarGuy]

I’ll admit that I was a little bias with this one but it’s always nice to use a tool that’s well made and does what it’s suppose to as well as this one does. What are your thoughts on it?

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[Rereonehundred]

I have found the Eastwood products to be very good and this flare tool also seems excellent.

However, it is set up for bench work rather than “on-vehicle” or “in-place” work.

I recently had to replace both corroded steel rear brake lines from under hood to rear drum slaves. I used copper nickle tubing which was expensive but worked wonderfully.

The first flare was bench work, but then I placed the line along its path, and did the final flare at the fitting under the hood. I don’t think the Eastwood product would be very versatile for than final under hood flare. I got by with the el-cheapo flare

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[david macias]

Thanks, I loved the tool review. The 007 Flare Tool was one that I lusted for and resolved to either buy or rent when I needed to do extensive brake line replacement on one of my old cars.The Eastwood tool is very similar and a bit less expensive.

[EricTheCarGuy]

[quote=”Rereonehundred” post=87585]I have found the Eastwood products to be very good and this flare tool also seems excellent.

However, it is set up for bench work rather than “on-vehicle” or “in-place” work.

I recently had to replace both corroded steel rear brake lines from under hood to rear drum slaves. I used copper nickle tubing which was expensive but worked wonderfully.

The first flare was bench work, but then I placed the line along its path, and did the final flare at the fitting under the hood. I don’t think the Eastwood product would be very versatile for than final under hood flare. I got by with the el-cheapo flare

tool.[/quote]

You’re correct that it wouldn’t work for lines that you had to do on the car. For that work you might be stuck using the other tool I showed in the video.

Thanks for your input.

[Rick]

I got this tool a couple years ago and agree, it is a breath of fresh air if you’ve ever tried to use the old style one. Eastwood also makes a hydraulic version of this tool that works for on-vehicle flares.

[EricTheCarGuy]

Yea, that would be cool. Sounds expensive though.

[Lorrin Barth]

You say the tool in the red case is 70 to 80% effective. In my hands it is 20% effective.

[EricTheCarGuy]

[quote=”barneyb” post=88115]You say the tool in the red case is 70 to 80% effective. In my hands it is 20% effective.[/quote]

Yea for me too, but I wanted to be as kind as possible.

[Lorrin Barth]

[quote=”EricTheCarGuy” post=88368][quote=”barneyb” post=88115]You say the tool in the red case is 70 to 80% effective. In my hands it is 20% effective.[/quote]

Yea for me too, but I wanted to be as kind as possible.[/quote]

Okay, maybe not kind but that makes me feel better.

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