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Trucks use air-brakes to stop. An air compressor in the truck sucks in air and squashes it. When the driver presses the brake pedal, the squashed air travels along coiled air lines. It pushes brake shoes against the wheels, slowing them down.
You can not use rubber fuel lines to replace the current brake lines due to the high operating pressure. You will need to replace them with brake lines, the rubber brake lines has a different construction to hold the pressure and not getting eaten away by the brake fluid, brake lines can hold over 2000psi when the pedal is heavily applied
Master cylinder brake lines are the most common brake lines on a the Chevy Malibu.
You remove the wheels to replace brake lines.
So the line can flex between the body and the frame/chassis.
The brake lines can be replaced by removing all of the retaining clips. The brake lines will need to be disconnected on both ends. Reverse the process to install the new brake lines.
Brake lines run from the master brake cylinder to each wheel, generally under the frame of the car.
Why would you want to replace all the brake lines? You can flush the entire system and install fresh DOT3 brake fluid. I can see no reason to replace all the brake lines. Why are you doing this? Unless your brake lines are rotted out or someone has cut them... there is no reason to replace all four lines.
How to change brake lines on a 1991 Buick Lesabre?
The service brake is the one which applies the brakes - the emergency brake system is the system which releases the spring brakes.