plugging a brake line

[alwaysacowboy]

I've got an 1986 Ford dump truck (the small kind, on a pickup frame) we use on our property to move dirt and wood.
One of the front left brake pads wore completely through the rotor, into the cooling fins. Everything was so badly rusted, I just cut the rubber line to the brake and put a screw in it with a couple of hose clamps. Worked fine for a little while, but the plug didn't hold and the fluid leaked out.
Any suggestions on plugging the line? It's about 1/16" I.D. hose. I'm afraid to touch anything else for fear of braking something...lots of rust.
Thanks,
Art

[12vman]

Go back to the engine compartment near the distribution block and cut the line. It may not be so rusted there. Mash the line shut and fold it over once and mash it again. I use a hammer and something that could be use as an anvil. I've had to do this a few times when I was out in the pits playing.. (a tire iron makes a decent anvil) ;)
Don

[cinok]

U could also diconnect the rubber line at the metal line and crimp it off with a pair of vise grips Also im not sure if the brake system on that is a split system or if its afront and back if its not split just plug the master youill not have any front brakes but its not used on the road

[johnny]

86 came with the dual master cylinder so simply remove the line to the front brakes at the block that divides from and back..

OR--

go junk yardin and replace the bad parts

[seriessearcher]

I have in my spare parts bin a junction for connecting two pieces of pipe the same size with the crush ball washers to seal them . I am drawing blank on what the official name for them is. Well on the other side which would go to the brake cylinder I found a cap that was threaded the same pitch. This way if I loose a brake line while four wheeling or hunting I can limp home. Cut the hard line above the rubber and attach similar set up.

Don't ask how I found out why this would be needed.

I found everything needed at the local chain hardware store around where they do the ice maker lines.

[kberg]

I have in my spare parts bin a junction for connecting two pieces of pipe the same size with the crush ball washers to seal them . I am drawing blank on *what the official name for them is. Well on the other side which would go to the brake cylinder I found a cap that was threaded the same pitch. This way if I loose a brake line while four wheeling or hunting I can limp home. Cut the hard line above the rubber and attach similar set up.

Don't ask how I found out why this would be needed.

I found everything needed at the local chain hardware store around where they do the ice maker lines.


I believe what you are describing is a compression fitting and it should NEVER be used on a brake system. They are not designed to bite in to steel and are not rated for the pressures incurred in a hydraulic braking system.

[seriessearcher]

I wouldn't use it for a long term fix, but I would to limp home. Just long enough to avoid the 40 mile hike out of the woods.

The other suggestions above are to fold the line and bang with a hammer?

That seems a little more unsafe than this one.

To each their own though.

[Len_Torney]

Why would you want to disable the brakes on a dump truck? Aren't they kind of important? ::)