92 ford ranger brake lines

Answer 1

Ford usually discontinues offering pre-bent brake lines for vehicles more than five years old. After that, you have to do what is done for almost all other vehicles: buy steel brake tubing and bend, cut, and flare it yourself.

If available, try to get the "unkinkable" brake tubing. This tubing has a plastic coating (usually green) and has an odd shape to the hole running it's length which makes it very easy to bend without kinking it. A kinked line is worthless.

To do the bending, cutting, and flaring, you will need special tools for the job. These tools are usually available from the local parts store for a total less than $50 US. These are a tubing cutter, a bender (if using regular kinky tubing) and a flaring tool (double flaring tool for fractional tubing or bubble flaring for metric as needed.)

If you bring a sample of the old line (including the flare nut) to the parts store with you they will be able to identify the correct size (usually 3/16 inch or 4.75 mm, but possibly 1/4 inch) of line and type of flaring tool that you need. Buy extra line. Line is cheap, and if you're using regular (gray steel) line, you'll probably screw it up the first time.

Do not forget to bleed your brakes at all four wheels after replacing line.

Oh, yeah, and if brake fluid dripping in your eyes and mouth annoys you, get a stick to hold the brake pedal at least slightly down so the brake lights stay on. Fluid will stop dripping. If concerned about draining the battery using the brake lights, disconnect the negative battery cable.

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