So the other night I went to get in my truck. Luckily this happened in the driveway. When I pushed the pedal it went to the floor and the ABS and Brake light on the dash came on. I looked under the truck and fluid was pouring out. It is on the drivers side between the rear of the side step thing and the front of the rear wheel. The frame rail is soaked as is everything in that area. How do you get to it to replace it? Is this something it should go to the shop for? How much should I expect it to cost? Or is it an easy fix. I've done other brake work like changing pads, rotors, calibers, but never done any changing of brake lines on a truck. Only motorcycles. On bikes I usually push fluid from the caliber up into it to fill the line so I can bleed it. How would you do this on this truck?

More importantly how do I get to this line to change it? Should I change all the lines on the truck or just this one? I don't want to have another one bust.

 

Sounds like you didn't get the wife what she wanted for Christmas.

 

I though you sold that thing?....

 

Mine did the same thing.
I got four sections of brake line at A-zone, One 60 inches long, one 30, and two shorter ones of different lengths.
ran them from the T fitting behind the left front wheel along the top of the frame rail to the fitting above the rear axle.
Just took slight bending by hand.
Covered the new line with vacuum hose every place it could touch anything and tied it down with heavy duty plastic ties.
Less than $50.00 spent.

 

Nope wish I had though. Tried to sell it but I refuse to give it away either. I'm not going to take $4000 for it when it's got a $3600 transmission in it along with several thousand in other upgrades. I wanted $8500 for it and the lowest I'd take would have been $7000. I didn't get anyone that even seemed interested for that price so I decided to keep it. Now this. I've been driving it a lot recently as we have had a lot of snow. Now this happens and I can't even use it in the upcoming snow. So when I do actually need it the thing isn't going to be driveable.

 

Hmm sounds like what I need to do. How long did it take you to do this? I'm wondering if I could do get it done in the next day or so and be ready for snow or if I should just give up on it. How did you get fluid in the line? Or did you just bleed it normally to pull fluid through?

 

I'm old and slow so it took me around 4 hours.
Bled the brakes with a hand vacuum pump called mity-vac or something like that.

 

Forgot, I also got some unions to join the lines.

 

So do I need one of those brake line benders and flaring tools? Or what do I need in the way of tools?

 

I didn't have to cut or flare any thing.
No tight bends, did all I had to do with the old hands.
Used line wrenches to get the old line off without messing up any others.