[Spridgets] Car stuff in general

rrengineer @dslextreme.com rrengineer at dslextreme.com
Sun Mar 7 20:38:11 MST 2010


Crap!  Maybe I better look at my 2000 F-150 brake lines.

Mike MacLean
60 Sprite (brake lines new since 2000 and are just fine)
56 BN2 (new brake lines pre-bent still in the box waiting for installation
if the body ever comes back from the painter)

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Biff Jones <biffjones at verizon.net> wrote:

> Evidently bad Ford brake lines were not limited to '96 - 98 Tarus and
> Sables, my '97 Bronco has had to have all it's brake lines replaced. One
> morning I was backing up my car trailer to load the Sprite for a car show
> and when I went to stop the pedal went to the floor. Odd I thought and I
> pumped on the brake pedal and they got hard but would slowly go to the
> floor. I got out and there was a big puddle of brake fluid. The main line
> to
> the rear brakes just behind the drivers door had split completely open for
> a
> good 3" and broke in half.  I was in a hurry so I spliced the line with
> some
> compression fittings and some old brake line and went to the show afraid to
> really use the brakes. Made it there and back but the next day I crawled
> under the Bronco and found all the other lines looked the same. Clean good
> looking for most of their runs but each line had a 3 -4" section that was
> severely rusted and once the rust was scraped off and the brakes used they
> would weep brake fluid. I ended up replacing all the lines.
>
>
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