Rear Brake Pipe Failure

[Canonite]

Ready to set off this morning and noticed a few oily patches on the drive under the offside rear wheel. Started the car and the brake pedal went straight to the floor, so I pumped it a bit and it seemed to bite again. Got to the end of the driveway and brake pedal went to the floor again.
Luckily my handbrake saved me and I managed to reverse back onto the driveway.

How hard a job is it to replace that brake pipe?
Can't drive the car as there's no brakes so need to get it done on the drive

[Santara man]

Not a difficult job really to change the pipe ..You will need to find which pipe has failed whether it's a rubber flexy pipe or a metal one. Undo the joins at either end and remove the pipe your local car spares shop should be able to supply a new one.
The difficult part is bleeding the brakes after the repair usually a 2 man job and it would be advisable to bleed the whole system starting with the wheel furthest away from the master cylinder.

[T-Cut]

Replace any metal pipework with Kunifer (eBay). The original steel pipes corrode like fury and are the Number 1 cause of MOT failure.

TC

[SD1too]

Originally Posted by Canonite

How hard a job is it to replace that brake pipe?

The first thing to do Alan is to have a look under the floorpan on the driver's side. It's very likely that the pipe run from the front to the rear of the car has corroded where it passes through one of the securing clips. This is what happened to me a couple of years ago. I renewed both lengths of pipe myself without touching the part which runs over the top of the fuel tank.

You ask how "hard" the job is. The answer depends upon your experience, patience, available time and whether you mind investing in a flaring tool. Here's the guide I wrote which might help you make up your mind. The most frustrating part for me was not bleeding the brakes afterwards, it was removing the rusted and seized unions at the forward bracket.

Simon