Hard brake line rupture ques (1 Viewer)

[ajax1]

So today was running billings canyon and broke the hard line that runs after the frame soft line that connects to the caliper soft line I guess from old age. I pinched the soft line from the frame with vice grips and drove out on 3 brakes and made it home. Do you think since I squeezed the soft line which is a braided Slee line that I damaged or need to replace that line now also?

 

[maxamillion2345]

Squeezing it hard enough to prevent leakage and maintain braking force is pretty hard and personally I'd probably replace that soft line.

Flush your entire system too.

 

[ajax1]

Kinda what I was thinking but didn't want to have to buy all 3 extended lines again.

 

[brian]

it's just a rubber line on the inside with the braid on the outside. if it's fairly new i wouldn't worry much about it. if anything the braid distributed the clamping force over a larger area therefore lessening the stress on the rubber.

 

[maxamillion2345]

Kinda what I was thinking but didn't want to have to buy all 3 extended lines again.

I'm not sure where you live but try your local hydraulics shop. You should be able to find one in any decent sized town to build you a single line to whatever specs you need.

 

[maxamillion2345]

Or try it, it'd probably be fine, but 20$ at the local hydraulics shop is cheap insurance to me.

 

[ajax1]

As in you think they could make the soft line? I know could prob find someone to make the hard line or we have a cruiser yard here in junction could prob buy used hard line or order it from Toyota, isn't there a soft line from Toyota that works for extended line that I thought Cdan figured out

 

[maxamillion2345]

Yes if you're in Grand Junction I'd imagine you can find a hydraulic shop to make you braided stainless lines. I had all mine made that way. As far as hard lines those aren't hard to make either.