Check your brake lines
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Check your brake lines
Just a reminder to all on this forum with older Expeditions in the rust belts:
Check your brake lines especially the one that goes from the ABS module to the rear axle. I just came home after towing my 3500 lb boat 100 miles, parked the boat in its winter position yesterday and after uncoupling the trailer, ruptured the above brake line near the gas tank. Its a good thing this did not happen a few days earlier or when another member of my family was driving the Expedition. Granted the front brakes still work, however I was caught off guard as to how far the brake pedal traveled before the front brakes grabbed.
To be safe, I'm replacing all my brake lines as the others don't look much better.
Check your brake lines especially the one that goes from the ABS module to the rear axle. I just came home after towing my 3500 lb boat 100 miles, parked the boat in its winter position yesterday and after uncoupling the trailer, ruptured the above brake line near the gas tank. Its a good thing this did not happen a few days earlier or when another member of my family was driving the Expedition. Granted the front brakes still work, however I was caught off guard as to how far the brake pedal traveled before the front brakes grabbed.
To be safe, I'm replacing all my brake lines as the others don't look much better.
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Mister CMK, You might be on to something. Brake lines have been flushed only once since new. Generally, I rinse the undercarriage everytime I wash the cars unless it is really cold when I am washing the vehicles, but I don't wash my vehicles on a weekly basis, more like monthly.
This vehicle is actually in much better shape than the other vehicles that we own.
One comment, the brakeline corrosion was noticabley worse where the gas tank is. Since the brakeline runs along the frame with fuel and AC lines it would have been very difficult to detect during routine undercarriage inspections which I do at every oil change.
This vehicle is actually in much better shape than the other vehicles that we own.
One comment, the brakeline corrosion was noticabley worse where the gas tank is. Since the brakeline runs along the frame with fuel and AC lines it would have been very difficult to detect during routine undercarriage inspections which I do at every oil change.
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