Posted by SJ on August 25, 2011 at 22:00:30 from (50.48.125.22):
Ok.Wife goes to Walmart to pick up new glasses.Comes out turns key,nothing.New battery last fall.So some fine gentlemen comes up to help.Gets out jumper cables hooks up with no results,wife says he melts his cables,hmmmm.She goes inside buys a pair cables,40.00.Next fine gentlemen comes along hooks up with new cables,nothing,says sorry see ya later.Wife goes into tire department at Wallys.Fine young gentlemen comes out looks around and says well of course your battery cable is loose(them tiny little annoying connectors)gets a wrench,tightens it down,says try it,van starts right up."UREAKA"Wife says thank you,puts it in gear starts off,hits the brake going out of parking"uhoh"pedal goes right to the floor.Now Im at work 70 miles away during all this coming off a 12 hr shift mind you.So I tell her go to Applebees have some dinner and I will come get you.So I get down there,look around and see that the rubber brake hose on left front is blown right out of the crimp.Ok what to do?Van is 20mi. from house.Most newer vehicles these days when you blow a line you still have some brakes at the other end of vehicle,right?Well I got nuthin.Get out look around,lo and behold,rear rubber line is also blown out of the crimp too.Now Im in so. tier NY,20mi.to house is a lot of hills.Im not real comfortable driving all that way with emer.brake.So I ask around and find out there is a Monroe Muffler down the road.So I take it over there.Park it,throw keys through drop off slot and call next morning.Tell them just fix brake lines so I can drive it home.OK.So they call a little while later and say they can do it for the small fee of 800.00 dollars.New caliper,20ft.brake line,new rubber lines,and I say I dont think so.Call garage down there for a tow,150.00.Ill get back to ya.Call garage in my town says he will go get it for 70.00.I say deal.Now I got truck in my garage.Up on the blocks.I got two blown rubber hoses,one caliper I with a destroyed bleeder screw(cant imagine how that happened)and of course when I loosen fittings metal brake hose is destroyed from front to rear(which by the way is only 10ft.not the 20ft MM wanted to charge me for @4.60a ft.)Now heres the baffling part>As Im dismantling the old brake line there are these plastic clips along the frame that secure the line to the vehicle.I notice that everyone of them is melted.On further inspection of the rubber brake hoses I find that they didnt blow off the crimp,they melted off.So my question is.Is it possible that one of these fine gentlemen that so graciously decided to help my wife actually hooked a jumper cable to a brake line for a ground and fried the whole brake line(front to rear).They are very close to the battery in this vehicle.As of today a week later(had to wait on rubber lines)Ive got about 200.00(including towing)into this project.Will have to invest another 70.00 if I cant get the bleeder screw broke free on the rear. If you took the time to read this whole story,I thank you for sharing my pain. Any input will be appreciated.
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