WebMonkey's latest melt down, poor ol' me, hissy fit. (yes, I'm WebMonkey)

RockAuto delivers front and rear brake pads.
it's 45F outside but hey, got a wood stove in the garage right?
only 1 light bulb and a trouble light but don't complain, be thankful, fix the brakes and drive on suckah!

fronts are done, passenger side inner was the noise maker.
put a little stop juice in the jug.
hey, pedal goes to the floor, what have i broken?

take a wheel back off.
mind you, not the one i forgot to put the hub cover on the first time.
(hub cover is held on by the lug nuts)

nothing dripping or spewing, but at least i'm freezing right?

more stop juice, a WHOLE CAN of stop juice, no pressure build.
stupid, stupid 'monkey!

fine, i quit, i hate everything.

pull truck out of garage and slam/pump to get truck to stop more or less.

clean up tools, GIANT pool of stop juice where the rear differential would have been.

what the stinkin' monkey poo is that for ?

when i set the parking brake to start this 30 minute fix, that was the last mashing rub the line could take.

see, my 2005 white dodge hemi ram quad cab 1500 lmnop has the parking brake clipped to the hard brake line.
which is forced onto a cast rib on the differential.

operate the parking brake, push the hard line onto the cast iron 'sharp corner'.
sweet!

anyway, i know i should be happy it happened in the garage and not the highway but i'm an old broke down cav trooper that hates any minor inconvenience.

this poor truck is my daily driver when i don't ride the motorcycle, meaning it sits a LOT.
it is also my wife's 'backup' rig since it has an automatic transmission.
(she has rebuffed my offers of manual shifting lever manipulation instruction)
(yes, 'monkey still knows words)



i plan to double flare a splice in. the 'ends' of the broken line look like they'll destroy what they're screwed into if i try to put in a pre-bent 'kit' piece.

sorry to cry like a big fat baby
'monkey

45 Fahrenheit? Thats where I heat my garage at in the winter.

77Dmax said:

45 Fahrenheit? Thats where I heat my garage at in the winter.

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yes, i'm a big ol' baby about everything but mostly the temperature.

below 70F and i might as well stay inside wrapped in a woobie.

'monkey

An LS swap won't fix your brake or ambient temperature dilemma but it will make you care about them a whole lot less.

Great write up! Ala Derek Bieri quotes….
I feel your pain. Similar occurrence but on the ole atv.
Buncha kids are riding it around the back yard this summer during a party and when I go to put it away the next day, no brakes!
(Mind you there was at least a half dozen different kids driving this thing from age 8 maybe to 12? In total beginners there why they were entertained for hours dodging trees and tearing up the back back part of the property.
First I’m like ok which one of those little suckers ripped a brake hose off or something. Then I was like, I bet their moms wouldn’t have been too happy if they knew it didn’t have brakes. (Which is why no one reported it, I’m certain….lol. Woulda been game over for them, but who need brakes? Pssst. Probably made them better drivers. You’re welcome moms…)

So back to the brake line. Years ago I noticed one of the hoses rubbing on the wheel when u turn sharp. Fixed that. The steel braid was rubbed raw but not too bad. So bent it out of the way, zip tied a piece of hose on it in case it started rubbing again and was good for probably 15 years.
Ok nbd, order a new hose for the front right wheel, right? Nope nada.
The whole brake line system is braided hose and it’s all one piece from front brake master cyl to a 4 way dist block to the back brake master cyl. $300 to replace one little chaffed hose on a 2008 atv!
Oh well that thing has served its time well. From hunting to mowing duty to the kids riding it over and over and over and over and….you get the picture. Went downstream upside down in Alaska about a mile til I could get ahead of it and toss a line. Tree fell on it. Older son barrel rolled it into the end of a culvert when he was about 10. (Thank god he wasn’t injured but made him a 100% batter driver that day…money well spent).
Thought I’d pile on to your unfortunate story to solace you that you’re not the only person this stuff happens to! Cheers!