I was driving down the highway last night when I lost all the pressure in my brake pedal.


I got underneath it today to check out what happened. There is a bracket on the driver side frame rail above the rear tire where it seems to go from a metal line to a rubber line. The rubber line or the fitting on it at least rusted off and the rubber line disconnected from this bracket. Any ideas? not really sure what I need to do to fix this.

 

What are you driving? Can you just replace that line?

 

I am driving a 2001 1500 extended cab. I am not sure what to replace to be honest. The rubber hose connected to the Tee seems fine at least the tee part. the bracket on the frame that the hard line runs into turning into the rubber line is rusted out and I have no clue what the connection even looked like on the end of the rubber line because it is all rotted away.

 

Could you take a pic?

 

http://i1071.photobucket.com/albums/...rearbrakes.jpg


I couldn't get a great picture so this is the diagram I found online. on the left side of the picture you see the bracket that attaches to the frame rail the line that goes from that bracket to the tee on the axle is a rubber material. the connection and bracket are both rusted and the break happened at the connection point

 

Did the metal line break? Or the soft line? No matter which, you need to replace the broken one.

 

This hose?? http://www.rockauto.com/catalog/more...050&cc=1366589

 

Ok so the brake line and the brake hose for the rear left both were rotted. i m replacing them both so here are my questions. How do you get the rear brake hose off the axle? and the bracket where the rubber hose and steel line meet is rotted any suggestions on that?

 

Doesn't the vent tube go thru the little block on the axle end of the brake line? If that's the case, the tube holds the brake line on there.

 

yes, is it a nut? the one on there is covered in rust and seems rounded not sure it it was over torqued and messed up or if it is supposed to be round