Hello best friends of ti 
Right where my lines drop from the tank into the bottom part of the body cavity where the lines travel seems to have these ****ty clips that hold water and salt. All I had to do was flick the rust and bam, all fell apart. Luckily it was only my fuel return and evap lines which I've successfully cut with pipe cutter and used a pressure rated hose to seal the two parts. This was successful and has been over the winter.
Now I fear my brake lines are succumbing to the same fate and was specifically told by a mechanic NOT to cut these lines because they won't hold due to immense pressure (where fuel return and evap are not pressurized).
I just moved to a new town and all the mechanics here seem to have at least 2 week periods just to look at the vehicle and I mean, if they want to do lines front to back I'm not waiting 2 weeks a shop for them to tell me the job will be one grand.
What I'm wanting to ask if it's possible to splice the bad parts of the line (they are about two feet lengths of brake/fuel send) and use compression fittings to repair the afflicted parts? Or do you have to replace the whole line? I've never done this type of work and my subframe being taken out is not really an option so if I made new lines I'd have to go under the subframe so prebents seem to be out of the question too due to this. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I have to commute to school everyday and I have a steady drip now (half a res a week) so I don't know how much longer this ***** will hold haha.
Right where my lines drop from the tank into the bottom part of the body cavity where the lines travel seems to have these ****ty clips that hold water and salt. All I had to do was flick the rust and bam, all fell apart. Luckily it was only my fuel return and evap lines which I've successfully cut with pipe cutter and used a pressure rated hose to seal the two parts. This was successful and has been over the winter.
Now I fear my brake lines are succumbing to the same fate and was specifically told by a mechanic NOT to cut these lines because they won't hold due to immense pressure (where fuel return and evap are not pressurized).
I just moved to a new town and all the mechanics here seem to have at least 2 week periods just to look at the vehicle and I mean, if they want to do lines front to back I'm not waiting 2 weeks a shop for them to tell me the job will be one grand.
What I'm wanting to ask if it's possible to splice the bad parts of the line (they are about two feet lengths of brake/fuel send) and use compression fittings to repair the afflicted parts? Or do you have to replace the whole line? I've never done this type of work and my subframe being taken out is not really an option so if I made new lines I'd have to go under the subframe so prebents seem to be out of the question too due to this. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I have to commute to school everyday and I have a steady drip now (half a res a week) so I don't know how much longer this ***** will hold haha.
