so last nite i pulled out of a parking lot and my brake pedal quivered, and truck gave me a tbc fault. so pulled back into a lot and looked around the truck and i didnt see anything wrong, got back in and everytime ide press the pedal id get the fault,but i still had brakes so i opted to try and make it home... i pulled out of the lot and got the the stop sign when it sounded like i had shot a pistol from the cab with the windows up... pulled back into the lot and the entire passenger front fenderwell was covered with fluid and the flex hose was busted just above the bracket holding the line on the control arm... this was at 8:15 last nite and with no part houses around i did some brainstorming and ended up at sears buying vice grips and fluid. clamped off the line and just didnt have brakes on that corner. i made the trip home without inccedent... at lunch today i started calling around looking for the hose... i call every parts house in the metro st louis area with no luck, autozone was one of two that could get it, but i had to pay $90 before and if the imcompident people there ordered the worng part i would be stuck with it... napa had three of them in the entire USA ... for $45 plus shiping and could have it tuesday... at last resort i called the dealership... that didnt know when they would be able to locate one, but for $125 i think ill pass, i went with napa, so we will see tuesday how it works...


anyone else have these problems or is it just me... between autozone and napa... there is 7 know hoses in the country...


btw i have a 05 f250 cc 4X4 6.0

 

That tells you how lucky you are. Never heard about brake hose blowing up.
And I retired 1973 Chevy about 4 years ago.

 

I replaced mine about a month ago. Went to oreillys and ordered it.... They had it that afternoon.

 

I had one blow out on my '65 ford. That was back in the days of single circuit brakes so it meant loss of brakes on both axles. Hairball.

I did research after that. Near death experiences do that to me! Manufacturers recommend REPLACING rubber lines every 5 years or so to prevent this. Well, the engineers do. Marketing pukes will insist they not put that in owners manuals for marketing reasons. Rubber rots and weakens over time. Period. They will eventually fail. Guaranteed. And if you don't flush fluid every 2 years, they will rot from inside as well.

Very uncommon for them to actually fail at 5 years. Most go much longer.

Long term solution is to replace rubber lines with stainless steel braided TEFLON core lines. These will NOT rot or degrade over time. Surprisingly, replacement aftermarket braided lines are usually less expensive than rubber... You do have to use care with routing and securing as the steel braid will wear right through anything it chafes on.

I think we will start seeing more of these from factories now that DOT has eliminated the archaic law that vehicles had to have rubber lines to be sold in the US. Motorcycles now come with braided. Well, the good ones do...

 

I had one blow on my GMC 2500HD plow truck. It was fun. About 2AM doing 35-40MPH on snow covered roads went to hit my brakes a little for a corner, slowed down to about 25MPH for the turn, then all of a sudden hurt a pop/band noise and lost all my brake pressure. Ended up spinning it around in a parking lot to slow down. It was a fun night.

 

i got a good pic of the part from napa, i figured out why the problem started... 4 weeks ago i had a tire separate on the passenger front corner... it looks like the tire bent the bracket that holds the line to the axle, so everytime the suspension traveled out it tore the line a little more... its a bum deal, but at least i figured out what is going on...

 

Glad you figured out and corrected the root cause! Thanks for reporting back. Glad to hear it was not a defective hose.

 

Not the cheapest but the best...

Goodridge G-Stop Brake Lines, Goodridge Stainless Steel Brake Lines 13095