It never fails!

Well my 99 Dakota need brakes again, did calipers, pads and rotors 3 years ago, not that many miles on them, but with all the salt NY dumps on the roads, and the cheap china made parts, there shot. Well I'm driving last week and I hear a thumping than it went away, get home take tire off and see inner pad fell out separated from the metal. Anyway it's pretty cold out so I asked my neighbor who Is a mechanic and has a heated shop with a lift if would change the oil/filter and do brake job, he said sure. I bring it down last night, and he starts the on it, well were the floating caliper sits it was really worn, so he built it up with weld, grinds is down ect, did the same on the other side and also found the lower caliper bolt hole just about stripped out, so he welds it in, drills it out and taps it with new threads. We get all done, put oil back in the engine,and bleed the brakes he lowers the lift starts the truck, I see smoke come off the left side of the engine, now I know I dident spill any oil on the exhaust manifold, he shuts truck off, says we just blew a break line! Lmao, I told him while he was working on it, I'm waiting for one of these Lines to go, the one I pointed to was the one the blew, but on the other side of the truck. Lucky he had line and fittings to fix it. So what should have been a simple job, turned into a 3 hour job! Lol, oh well at least it's all done, like he said prolly the last time the truck will ever get brakes again,with 178,000 miles on it!

Lucky the line failed sitting still. Not rolling down the eway pulling a trailer.

I'm glad that we have non corrosive salt over here in NH, LOL. I try to make it a point to take my oil can under my vehicles when there and squirt the brake lines, fuel lines, oil cooler lines, bottoms of doors, to slow down the corrosion.

Did a water pump on neighbors pickup a couple years back. Blew 2 brake lines as I went to back it out of the shop. Ended up replacing every steel line on it. Just a little more than I bargained for.

I took my '02 SuperDuty to the shop to have a flatbed welded on. While they were hooking up and testing the lights, they blew a brake line. I'd rather it happen there than when I meet a school bus letting kids off.

I find it hard to understand why brake lines are failing these days and they tell us to flush out the lines and change the fluid after about 75 thousand miles. Is the fluid more corrosive or are the brake lines thinner?