Posted by davpal on January 04, 2013 at 23:02:20 from (216.93.96.47):
In Reply to: OT 97 Dodge Ram posted by super99 on January 04, 2013 at 18:02:16:
I just went through this with a 2000 Ram 2500 pickup this year. All of them rust out the brake lines. The one behind the gas tank is the first to go. I had to take the gas tank down a bit to get at that one. Was CHEAP to replace. Was about 14 feet long I think. After that I had to replace the short little line in the back above the rear axle. Next to go were the curly lines below the master cylinder. They are all preformed and were TRASHED. They were all available from my Dodge dealer and I bought all of them brand new. It seems like there were four of them. Now I have all new lines and the brakes work great again. The regular lines from auto zone were about $15 bucks and the preformed ones from Dodge ended up about $140 bucks and were worth every penny. It doesn't matter what vehicle you buy, if you live in a climate with salt you will be fixing it and brake lines are notoriously bad on these modern vehicles. I just had to do the exact same replacement from front to back on my 1999 Lincoln Navigator. The ones on that under the master cylinder are like a braided stainless looking line and they were trashed and cost about $75 dollars each! The other lines were just auto zone lines. I also had to replace lines on a 1993 Lincoln Mark this year. Bottom line, if you have a vehicle pushing 10 years old in a salty climate the brake lines are a ticking time bomb liability. You could own the same vehicle in Arizona and never touch a brake line ever. Good luck, its frustrating but any truck you buy will need it so you might as well fix the one you have.
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