Driving home from work two nights ago and had to put my foot to the floor to stop my 95 GSR! When I got home (very slowly in 1st and 2nd gear), I saw the reservoir was empty, refilled and put my foot on the brake and saw and heard fluid shooting from near the gas tank. When I put the car up and got under I observed the brake hard lines had rusted away. The car did spend half of its life in Vermont so I guess the salt eventually got to the lines, every time I get under I see a good degree of rust. How do I repair this, it looks like 4 lines (ABS System)? Also should I also replace the rubber brake lines to SS ones, how difficult a job is this? Thanks

 

Im not sure if there is a Napa near you but if not find a place that sells brake lines and buy some compression fittings. You also might want to get a GOOD hand held pipe bender in case you need to replace a pipe where there is a bend. I had to fix one of mine because it got hit by a welder on accident. I would only replace the part of the pipe that is rusty, and if the whole thing is rusty then replace the whole thing. G/L

 

Agree w/Zedron. Get the tubing by the foot at an autoparts store. Get a flare tool too.

If your doing one, chances are good you will need to do more soon, and buying the prefab, prebent oem lines is REALLY expensive.

 

yeah get a good bender. if you are cheap you can just use a hacksaw/dremel to cut the lines and file off the burs.

 

The best way to prevent that is ..Go and buy a Kleen flow product called HONEY GOO (it comes in a orange can)and every oil change take the can and soak the lines front to back. I have 389,000 on my original lines.

 

Thanks for the quality imputes, just a few questions, how do you get those plastic covers off of the lines? How expensive are the OEM lines, I found them on Delray Acura for $74 and $64, are these correct prices? How difficult is the bending and fabricating the lines, with the price of the flare tool and pipe bender is it worth it?

 

I have stainless lines I could sell ta ya... if you want em...

 

I just had brake disaster my civic over the weekend so I had to do this. Advance sells double-walled tubing that is already flared on the ends and has the fittings on it. It is seriously easy. I just bought the $5.00 tube bender and it took me about five minutes to do a 12" section.

 

As bnuk mentioned, brake lines are double-walled. Some flaring tools can't handle double-walled tubing, so make sure you get the right type.

 

Autozone carries both a flare tool and Brake line bender for Free rental.

Autozone sells brake lines for like $4 bucks. Just gotta makes sure you have your brass fittings matching.

How difficult? it's fairly easy / fun. Just takes some to figure it all out.