Rusted Brake lines

[JrodSVT]

So yesterday i go to michigan to pick up the 90 and bring it home (i was going to drive it ) well two days ago the guy calls and said the brake line busted and said it was under the hood so it must've been a steel line. Well he felt bad and offered to trailer the car to me at no charge. I decline and say naw i will come up and fix it. Well i thought being under the hood it must've been offa the HCU. I get there yesterday (four hour drive) and look and see that it is not the HCU but a small mounting block on the fender well drivers side. Well we look at it and decide that it is only a pass through for the ease of installation at the factory. We bypassed it. Next one on the block blew. Well the local pepboys is out of 3/16 unions(we actually used quarter inch on the first one) so there is no luck goin and bypassing the next line. the last line on the Block looks better than the first 2 but not much. So anybody ran into this problem on there gen 1? the block is located just under the brake booster. My solution to the problem is to rip off all the abs and switch it to normal brakes suck as a 89 SHO and use stainless lines.

 

[SHO#7]

I had this happen on my plus. I found a good used one from a southern car.

And still have yet to put it on.

Mike

 

[JrodSVT]

the block with the lines in it? i don't think they come out.

 

[SHO#7]

You're right , they do not. I bought the lines and block. The lines come from the ABS pump, 3 go into the block and the 4th goes around it.

Mike

 

[JrodSVT]

you can buy that or did you get it from another car?

 

[SHO#7]

I got it from a southren car. Another member was kind, and pulled them for me.

Mike

 

[F-22 Raptor SHO]

Deja Vu....when I picked up my 90 in Michigan 2 years ago, the line was leaking after I got it home. I freaked out cause I just got off the highway and was testing the brakes. What is more than likely busted is one of these:

These are the lines that go from the master cylinder to the antilock controller. the block on the left is where my lines were breaking. No you cant get this from autozone, but a totalled Taurus or sable with antilock brakes will have this. I paid 6 bucks for it at u wrench it auto in kalamazoo.....it was in the 25th car I looked at, which was a sable with antilocks. I was really nervous cause I was supposed to move the next day to Arizona.

Took me 1 full day to fix the problem from the time I left my house to the time I finished the job (bleeding and all). I ended up usings a flaring tool to fix one line that went to the drivers front wheel.

Michigan cars are tough on brake lines. since then I have scavanged more than a few of these octopus cluster of brake lines.

 

[djsSHO]

Anyone happen to have one of these sets of brake lines as my 94 has sprung a leak at the top of the box?

I don't really want to bypass ABS with driving it in the winters up here.

Would a dealer have this part or is that also obsolete by now?

 

[JrodSVT]

the first 2 lines on the block on the right is what rusted on me. So Bob Gervais is hooking me up with his old actually not rusted ones. To bad I already flared and bypassed the first one so now I have my right front brake line that lacks the ISO flare so i am going junk yarding next weekend to get that lines and hopefully a new engine wiring harness.

 

[SuperHO]

Is this all problems on a black 90 up north of Grand Rapids, MI?