Chevy Pickup Brake Line Removal
You extremity to examine the brake lines on your Chevy pickup Motor lorry every six months. Provided there are any leaks, corrosion or any other damage in the lines, you commitment to remove them for replacement. The lines are separated into metal pipes and rubber hoses, and either tool may exigency replacing at any duration.
Metal Lines and Hoses
Whether you are removing the metal brake lines for replacement, beget positive you include the prerrogative type of replacement lines. You demand steel brake lines from an Car parts store or your Chevy dealer's parts department--never convenience copper tubing. You can predispose prefabricated brake lines from either of these places, with the tube ends already flared and the Trimmings installed.
Up thrust the Motor lorry (securing it on jack stands works peak), and remove the revolve much the same to the brake edge you are removing. You necessitate two wrenches to seperate the brake borderline from the rubber hose at the bracket. Capitalization a flare-nut wrench on the becoming devotee so you don't strip the ends of the kernel, and clinch the hose cusp with an open-end wrench so you won't twist the frame bracket. Disconnect the Trimmings at the other neb extremely to remove the metal contour.
Whether you devoir to remove the rubber hose, there is a U-clip at the female fitting of the brake line on most Chevy pickup models. Remove this clip with a pair of pliers, pass the hose through the bracket and remove the bolts securing the hose brackets to the steering knuckle and upper control arm.
After you connect the new brake line by tightening the fitting nuts and/or installing the U-clip, you need to bleed the air out of whichever brake caliper the new brake line is connected to. With the master cylinder reservoir filled with fluid, attach a clear tube to the caliper's bleeder valve and submerge the other end in a container of fluid. Open the bleeder valve and have an assistant repeatedly press the brake pedal to remove air until the fluid flows cleanly out the tube. Top off the master cylinder after bleeding the brakes.
