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Welp...back apart.

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Started out this am intending to do a 15 minute brake bleed to just perfect the pedal feel. After two hours (bleed. Try again. Try again with the front calipers off and clocked, Try again from the beginning) we found a drip below the T fitting on the rear firewall. That's the replacement fitting for the one that split at the seam after I installed it like two years ago. WTF?

The leak is very small: one drop after standing on the brakes. With the proportioning valve partly closed before there was no leak, but now that it's wide open, here we are.

We tried tightening all three and got no movement, but my assistant did manage to round off the flare nut from the main feed.

As I recall, I assembled this new one on the bench and the only flare I attached in situ was that main line from the proportioning valve. I may have put some red threadlock on these...

Of course, with the engine in it's hard as hell to get any kind of reasonable access to this part, so Vicegrips were employed.

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No joy. So I pulled off the carbs to get some clearance to pull off the T and inspect. 

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Hopefully I'll be able to get it out tomorrow without damaging anything. And I'll put the CB vacuum reference plates under the carbs when they go back on.

I am a bit miffed though.

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