I cut my brake line, is it patchable?
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I cut my brake line, is it patchable?
I had to cut the brake line in the midst of my restoration. I cut the line that goes to the rear drums on my 1995 F350. I cut it where about 2 feet up the line. My question is this...if i wanted to drive this to the shop so i didnt have to spend tow money, could I bend the line so fluid couldnt leak out of it, and just fill up the reservoir and just use the front brakes? Or would this not work and still dangerous?
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You could do this, but you run the risk of it leaking. I have made field repairs like this with mixed results. You will want to crimp the line and not just bend it, but it will work.
I always recommend the proper repair and the proper repair would be a new line. To get you by, you could use a compression fiitting so you could drive to the shop for repair, without a great deal of worry.
Just about any telp fix will do as long as it is only a temp fiix.
New line should be the goal.
I always recommend the proper repair and the proper repair would be a new line. To get you by, you could use a compression fiitting so you could drive to the shop for repair, without a great deal of worry.
Just about any telp fix will do as long as it is only a temp fiix.
New line should be the goal.
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Pre-cut brake lines have male and female threaded fittings on the end so you can connect them together in a line. You'd think there'd be some fittings our there specially designed to do that in the middle of a line - something you could slip over the end, flare the line, screw 'em together...but I haven't seen one.
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I have driven with front brakes only (Friday afternoon, taking a friend to the airport, scaring the living *** out of him 
) so that part is doable, as long as you keep a safe distance and some idiot don't cut you off.
But with a flare tool and a coupler, you should be able to make your line whole.
) so that part is doable, as long as you keep a safe distance and some idiot don't cut you off. But with a flare tool and a coupler, you should be able to make your line whole.
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