A long story. So I will shorten it.!
I am considering doing a full front brake job on my daughter's Freelander2 2014.

What size spanner to remove flexible brake pipe from the caliper.?
And will I need a flare spanner... All other tools I have.
Thanks R

Welcome

I replaced all my flexible hoses recently, together with the caliper carriers when I upgraded the front brakes and used ordinary sockets and spanners.
If you've got a reasonable toolkit then you'll probably have a metric spanner that fits. My open ended spanners go from 6mm to 24mm - it was one of those but which I cant remember.

Welcome BTW Jules

Thanks. yes I have a reasonably good toolkit. But dont have any "flare"-spanners.
So it would seem from what you say that a normal open ended one will do the job.
Just wondered how tight(!) they can be, and if a flare(ring) type spanner may have been necessary.
Thanks a lot. !
RB

I dont see how you could attach a torque wrench to a brake pipe fitting so I dont know if torque values are quoted. So I nip the connections up and check for weeping when bleeding the brakes.

Not done this but maybe one way to get a feel for the torque required using a specific spanner it to put a torque wrench in a vice and turn a suitable bolt using that spanner until the it clicks at say 20Nm Jules

Abingdon69 wrote:

Thanks. yes I have a reasonably good toolkit. But dont have any "flare"-spanners.
So it would seem from what you say that a normal open ended one will do the job.
Just wondered how tight(!) they can be, and if a flare(ring) type spanner may have been necessary.
Thanks a lot. !
RB

jules wrote:

I dont see how you could attach a torque wrench to a brake pipe fitting so I dont know if torque values are quoted. So I nip the connections up and check for weeping when bleeding the brakes.

Not done this but maybe one way to get a feel for the torque required using a specific spanner it to put a torque wrench in a vice and turn a suitable bolt using that spanner until the it clicks at say 20Nm