I bled them last night because I had no pedal action at all. I thought I simply had some air in my lines. I knew I had a brake leak somewhere, I just figured it was coming from my ABS pump.

I was wrong.

I was bleeding the rear passenger caliper and every 4 - 5 pushes on the pedal would produce air bubbles even after the fluid ran clear. This was confusing so I did the other side and it bled normally. Well, I went to turn the car around so I could do the fronts and I was rewarded with NO brakes again. The master cylinder was full and I had primed the brakes so I was starting to get a little angry.

I had my father pump the brakes while I looked under the car and sure enough, I could hear hissing. I scanned around and I found that one of my hardlines had developed a REALLY bad leak.

So, my question is this. Has anyone ever heard of this happening? I'm going to fix it, but I want to make sure that any hardline can work. There is an NA non ABS car in the junkyard I can probably scavenge from if it will work.

Can anyone shed any light on this?

 

Its only a matter of time before everyones brake lines do this.

I would personally would replace all the brake lines and fuel lines with SS lines to get rid of any later problems, but its much easier to get a pre bent hard line off a FC.

My main fuel line had about 4 leaks in it because it was so rusted, and the return line had one leak.

My brake lines are fine which is a surprise.

 

So, if worse comes to worse, can a brake shop make a new hardline?

 

Yes, I think you can get away with the typical 3/16" brake line to replace yours.
Just keep the fittings, but the shop should know this.


-Ted

 

yeah thats what justs happened to me...theres a hissing under the hood and my brakes are hard as a rock...any advice?

 

^^^ my guess would be your power brake booster line is leaking