These notes describe what I did on my car for my personal use and are provided here for entertainment; they are not meant to be instructions for others to do maintenance on their vehicles.

All the pipes and fittings may seem overwhelming at first glance.  On the other hand, all the pipes may look the same, all the hoses they same, etc. --- until you find you put the right part in the wrong place.  As with most problems, a little attention to detail reveals that there is a good reason when each part is the way it is and the parts that all looked the same at first glance start to look different with a little closer inspection. The parts are described in excruciating detail below followed by pictures of the pipes on the bare frame.

Fitting Size & Threads: All the fillings use standard machines threads.  Three sizes are used as follows:

• 7/16 -24 TPI is used for the front brake pipes from the master cylinder to the PDWA.  This is done so that the pipes for the front and rear parts of the system are not mixed up.
• 10mm - 1.0 mm pitch is used on the front caliper input pipe and bleed nipple after CC81079.
• 3/8-24 TPI is used on all other pipes, hoses, fittings, cylinders, calipers and bleed nipples.

Pipe Flares:  Two types of flares are used on the pipes as shown in photo on the right.  The male type (left in photo) mates with calipers, cylinders and tees whereas the female type (right in photo) mates with hoses and a 2-way coupling.  The nuts turn freely around the pipe.   The seal is achieved when the nut forces the flare against the mating fitting.

Fitting Sex: The photo on the right shows both male and female fittings on the pipes and the male fittings on the hoses.  The calipers, wheel cylinders, master cylinder, PDWA and Tees all have female fillings. The hoses all have male fittings on both ends.   The pipes have a mixture of male and female fittings as required for the specific pipe.

Replacement Pipes & Hoses: Several vendors sell replacement pipes and hoses.  Some are sold already bent to the correct shape while others you bend yourself.    The lines are fairly soft and bend quite easily and are not prone to kinking.  This time I bought the pipes that attach to the calipers bent to shape and the rest unbent. I was able to salvage the pipes between the master cylinder so those two were not purchased new.   I am very careful to make sure the hoses are top quality.  I use the standard hoses.  I understand other style hoses such as braided steel are available.  I've had no experience with other than the standard hoses. 

Front Pipes: The sketch on the right shows the pipes for the front brakes.  The sketch came from the TRF red TR250 catalog.   There is a similar sketch in the blue TR6 catalog.  I cut the sketch in half and processed it to illustrate the points of interest.     The table below lists the Triumph parts numbers (if there are two Triumph numbers, first is for TR250 and second for TR6) and TRF numbers if different.  I purchased the new lines and hoses from TRF and am happy with them.  A little plug is appropriate since I swiped their catalog graphics.

Rear Pipes: The sketch on the right is for the rear half pipes and is also from the TRF catalog.  The parts are listed below.

Pictures of Installed Pipes:  No pictures yet because the pipes aren't installed yet.    Pictures should be here by the spring of 2003.