Brakes went out!

chefdab · **Posted:** Sat Jun 09, 2007 10:51 pm

I was out this evening, on my way to a local park for my daily run. I came to a red light and my brakes went out. I managed to swerve into the other lane to keep from hitting the guy in front of me. With my foot to the floor, the brakes barely grabbed. I limped to a parking lot about two blocks away where I knew my wife was shopping and parked. I took a look under the hood and the brake fluid was obviously low. So I grabbed my wife's car and ran up the street to Pep Boys and got some fluid. When I got back, I decided to see if I had any leaks. Well as it turns out the front passenger side line had apparently been rubbing against the tire and had worn a hole in it. These are the extended stainless steel braided lines for the RE long arm kit. Now I know the line needs to be replaced and the whole system needs to be bled out. My two choices for the repair are a Firestone auto repair shop about 1/4 to 1/2 mile from where it's parked. They were already closed for the day when this happened. ( I can probably drive there if I go slow and use the e-brake and flashers) Or I can have it towed to the dealer that installed my lift. Do you think the Firestone would be capable of replacing the line (I would still want a stainless braided line)or would they only have stock lengths of rubber hoses. Or take it to the dealer where they will probably replace with the same thing (I might be out of the Jeep for a day or two because they might need to order the lines). What other brands of brake lines can you guys suggest? Anything stronger that I would be able to order in the correct length? Any tips on preventing this from happening again would also be appreciated.

priell3 · **Posted:** Sat Jun 09, 2007 11:04 pm

Glad you were able to get things under control without incident. You don't want to lose another Jeep!
Hope you get it fixed soon.

hyedipin · **Joined:** Thu May 11, 2006 10:20 am **Posts:** 1667

That was scary, good thing you were able to swerve in control.

jason thompson · **Posted:** Sun Jun 10, 2007 7:05 am

so you had a lift installed? and the lines rubbed?
sounds like bad install
why not just get a stock length line from pepboys and change it in there parking lot?
ride it like that until you get the correct length line and replace

We change break line out on the trail some times and the jeeps will stay that way for years so doing it in the parking lot should be easy

05kjrenny · **Posted:** Sun Jun 10, 2007 10:21 am

Dude I just read your post over at ROF and that must have been scary. Did you have the RE lines? Ive heard good things skyjacker brake lines. Hope it works out , glad you didn't get hurt.

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