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Brakes Just bought this car

#1 Guest_Coder J_*

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Posted 30 November 2006 - 06:23 AM

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Hi all, I just recently bought my 1989 Dodge Daytona (2.5L SOHC, no turbo, sadly). It was a steal since the it had some minor electrical issues (which I resolved by pulling some new wires in) and some minor body rot on the floor.

I was driving home from work yesterday with it when suddenly it felt like I lost pressure in my brake lines. Luckily, I was able to use the e brake to get the car the rest of the way home (along with down shifting), where I discovered the line that leads to the passenger rear disc brake has a bad change over... which figures because from the pad to the change over is all new! Unfortunately, looks like I need to get the whole line replaced since it's pretty well rusted and taking off the change over will probably damage the metal line anyway. My question is if the mechanic doesn't charge me an arm an a leg should I go ahead and let him do the other lines or can I hold off on them until after christmas? All the lines have some rust scaling on them (dang New England winters), but other than that look none the worse for wear. I was going to run all new lines in a month anyway when I had more money and I had the car up on a lift anyway so I could cut out the rust and weld some new plates into it.

Thanks for any advice in advance.

[Update 1] Dropped the car off, got it back in 2 hours (!). Car was still on the lift so I was able to see what they had done. The mechanics had replaced both brake lines on the passenger side and the fuel line. Their reasoning on the brake lines was they had to replace at least one to get the new change over on, but the other one was in a similar condition that it probably would of popped the second they put fluid back in the system. The fuel line got done because it was actually leaking a little bit (very very slowly). In the end, just set me back $133 USD. Not bad at all, and I got a quote to do the remaining lines (about $250).

This post has been edited by Coder J: 30 November 2006 - 01:27 PM

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Posted 30 November 2006 - 04:00 PM

i think you got a good deal on that. and well i know id feel safer knowing all that got done
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Posted 03 December 2006 - 12:06 PM

yea i just got done replacing all of the fuel lines and brake lines in my car. not too bad or hard. just took time to make sure all the bends were in the right places. glad to see you're safer now.
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#4 Guest_Coder J_*

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Posted 02 January 2007 - 06:45 AM

Been driving this car around for a bit now, worrying about other things (got a major electrical problem somewhere between the fusebox and a few pieces of equipment, such as the blower; also found part of the floor is rotting faster than I wanted it to), but noticed at my last fill up yesterday that I seem to be guzzling gas (less than 20mpg) doing short drives to and from work. Long drives are barely touching the tank. Quick inspection revealed the problem.... one of the couplings in the new gas line isn't quite tight enough or has a leak. As a result, when the fuel line loses pressure, it leaks for about 10 minutes. This would probably explain why I'm having a little trouble getting the car to turn over sometimes.

Going back to the garage I had the work done at, they should fix it easily.

Hopefully after this I can get the car on a lift and spray some Eastwood Rust Away on the floor, rip out what's rotted away, and weld some new pieces in (found a place not far from me that actually makes the stamped out sheet metal for cars, all you have to do is call them, say which part you need (front driver, rear driver, front passenger, rear passenger), and they stamp it out within a few days... only about $125 per). Then I have to drop the front axle so I can replace it for the most part. Fun.
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Posted 02 January 2007 - 12:16 PM

Coder J, a question. First can I assume from your screen name you are a programmer?

As to your electrical issues. I had a major electrical issue under the hood which I tinkered with for nearly 6 months. It turned out to be a bad connection where two connectors came together. Which one is not know since we simply disconnected every one and I mean every one and looked at them. Each one was cleaned, greased with some dielectric grease and put back together, one at a time. After that the problem disappeared.

You may have the same issues and if not looking at every one and inspecting, cleaning and greasing them is good insurance toward bad connections in the future.
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