Another Problem, Another Day!

[Ghettoracer]

Welp, I was checking to see how my exhaust was setup so I crawl underneath the rear end of the car and I see brake fluid dripping onto the wheel. WTF?! As if I already have enough problems with this car as is! Going to pull the wheel off tomorrow and see whats up with that. Probably a corroded brake line or something. I know I have issues with the foot e-brake cause the pedal won't stay down but if I pump it, the car wont budge. Another issue, tomorrow LOL And sorry if I post a lot on here cause I have a lot of issues with my car to take care of!

[robertisaar]

have fun with that.... i've blown lines for all 4 wheels multiple times. its quite a pain, even after you do it that many times.

[pocket-rocket]

What was fun was making an emergency stop in my pickup with my nephew in the passenger seat as someone was cutting me off clipping my front quarter panel. I ended up popping the steel line going to the rear, but had enough fluid in the reservoir to get home to change vehicles. I guess all wasn't lost, I got to drive the 92 that day Although it was raining and I had to get to 3rd gear before I could gain traction, lol.

[Ghettoracer]

Looks like my parking cable was so loose that every time I depressed the parking brake the wire kept cutting into my brake hose. Looks like I have a day of fixing the parking brake and brake hose. If my parking brake is that loose how do I tighten it up?

[1988GTU]

I just got done replacing the rear lines and hoses on yet another rusty 60*v6 L body... Fun Fun. I recommend locating a new cable and all hardware as you might find it will be rusty and/or stretched out of adjustment. I think for keeping the line and cable free of each other, you'll need to inspect the brackets. Might be missing one or it's bent. You could try rerouting them too, just be sure the travel distance is fine.

[Ghettoracer]

Yeah I agree I think the P-brake is stretched too its extent cause the P-brake pedal doesn't stay to the floor and pops back up but for some reason the p-brake holds. May need a pedal assembly soon also maybe. Could be that the ratchet inside the pedal is stripped. I'll let ya know tomorrow when I tear the rear brakes apart.

[SappySE107]

This is not an engine issue, and has been moved to the off topic area.

[60dgrzbelow0]

I just got done replacing the rear lines and hoses on yet another rusty 60*v6 L body... Fun Fun. I recommend locating a new cable and all hardware as you might find it will be rusty and/or stretched out of adjustment. I think for keeping the line and cable free of each other, you'll need to inspect the brackets. Might be missing one or it's bent. You could try rerouting them too, just be sure the travel distance is fine.

When you did the Brake Line replacement job on the L-Body... did you use factory replacement lines...or did you opt to use the new "finger-bendable" lines like the ones NAPA sells? A year or so ago... my son was almost killed when his 1994 Camaro RS (with those damned awful hybrid discs/drums set up) failed when his engine went into an uncontrollable WOT condition and the brakes faded and failed. I wound up doing a complete four wheel LS1 brake conversion after that and used a few of the NAPA lines when I had to rework the hose mounting brackets on the front so they would reach and not bind. I could not believe how flexible those new lines were and I even copped the old safety impact protection coil windings from the original GM lines to get the NAPA lines as close to factory specs as possible. What a huge difference in smooth and strong braking power that car had after that!

[1988GTU]

I bought a coil of 100' about 8+ years ago and been using that ever since. It is aluminized steel. So far the lines on the other cars are not rusty, only where the fittings gouged the surface from installation do I see some surface corrosion going on.

The difference was night and day I found also.

New fluid, new whip hoses, new lines = like new. I even replaced the rear wheel cylinders on one of the cars due to the amount of rust that was blowing out during the bleeding procedure.