Hey BITOG!
I have rebuilt many engines, a couple transmissions, transfer cases, re-wired vehicles, and even re-programmed them. What I have never done is replace a steel brake line. I have done calipers, soft lines, etc...but never the long, formed lines that run along the frame. My daughter has a 2006 Ford Taurus with a VERY leaky brake line. The leak is in the outside line that runs right under the driver's door. I have not spent a ton of time under the car, so I can not confirm the length of the line, or where is terminates, but it seems like one of the terminations is right there at the leak site (well, just forward of the leak). I try to look up diagrams, and find nothing that is consistent. Can I replace just that section? Do I have to pull off major body/frame parts to do it? Can I just replace it with a flexible plastic type of line? I guess I am just looking at the latest state of the art method for fixing something like this.
I have rebuilt many engines, a couple transmissions, transfer cases, re-wired vehicles, and even re-programmed them. What I have never done is replace a steel brake line. I have done calipers, soft lines, etc...but never the long, formed lines that run along the frame. My daughter has a 2006 Ford Taurus with a VERY leaky brake line. The leak is in the outside line that runs right under the driver's door. I have not spent a ton of time under the car, so I can not confirm the length of the line, or where is terminates, but it seems like one of the terminations is right there at the leak site (well, just forward of the leak). I try to look up diagrams, and find nothing that is consistent. Can I replace just that section? Do I have to pull off major body/frame parts to do it? Can I just replace it with a flexible plastic type of line? I guess I am just looking at the latest state of the art method for fixing something like this.