My lebaron's brake lines were so rusted one of them decided to give out yesterday, so I'm already looking at flaring tools, bending tools, cutting tools, and brake line.
I'm going to go ahead and replace both solid lines that run to the back brakes. My question is...I've got the car on a jackstand with the driver's side wheel off, and it's really hard to tell where those two lines run when they disappear up into the firewall. I can't really see anything from the side, either.
If I try to follow the system from the master cylinder-down, I see below it both sides of the master cylinder appear to plug in to some sort of valve (a part that does not show up in any of the parts databases if you try to call it a proportioning valve, so maybe that's not the name of it).
I'm getting the feeling I'm going to have to take off the master cylinder to see what I'm doing, whether I like it or not.
IS this a proportioning valve, and do the solid lines from the back of the car run into said valve further below it where I can't see?
I'm going to go ahead and replace both solid lines that run to the back brakes. My question is...I've got the car on a jackstand with the driver's side wheel off, and it's really hard to tell where those two lines run when they disappear up into the firewall. I can't really see anything from the side, either.
If I try to follow the system from the master cylinder-down, I see below it both sides of the master cylinder appear to plug in to some sort of valve (a part that does not show up in any of the parts databases if you try to call it a proportioning valve, so maybe that's not the name of it).
I'm getting the feeling I'm going to have to take off the master cylinder to see what I'm doing, whether I like it or not.
IS this a proportioning valve, and do the solid lines from the back of the car run into said valve further below it where I can't see?