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Current mood:  pleased
Well here I am sitting at my computer typing this Blog. I have been out of work for a week and have gotten my affairs in order with unemployment. I even replaced the rear brake line on my 1988 Chevy S10 Pickup yesturday. It was really quite easy to do. I went to Autozone and picked up 1/4 inch brake line and a couple of couplers and a tubing bender. After jacking up the truck and putting jack stands under the frame. I then was able to unconnect the front line at an existing coupling just infront of the drivers door on the inside of the frame. I started bending it back and forth till it snaped which was quite easy as it was already rotting. I discovered this the day before as I was going about 40 mph on a local road and went to stop and the front brakes locked up and I skidded for like 20 yards and almost bounced off the curb trying to avoid the stopped car infront of me. My 11 yr old son was with me and said that was some cool driving. So I preceded to pull out the old line and needed channel lock pliers to remove the back fitting as it was almost frozen in the connector bit I got it out with 10 min of labor. I was able to then bend the new line to a close replication of the old line and got it in there. I used 2 51" pieces and 2 cuplings to make the repair. Along with the tubing bender Total parts cost me $16.98. Labor was free and I didn't need to miss work as I'm unployed. It took me about 4-5 hours to do the repair but I in no way rushed the job. By the book it's probally 2 hours labor. At $70 an hour it would have been about $140 labor and with parts markup about $35-$40 parts. The repair totaling around $175. It was my first time doing it and it wasn't bad. If any of my other lines leak i'll jump right on them and replace them. I'm glad we had a record high of 79 degrees and it wasn't -5 degrees like it was 2 months ago it sure made the job enjoyable.
1:33 AM
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