jon@dakota-truck.net wrote:
>
>
> Hehehe! Its almost like deja vu! :-) I had a similar experience
> a little while back with my '92 Ram, except I was going down a hill,
> touched the pedal and it went all the way to the floor. My parking
> brake is rusted solid in that vehicle too, and its an automatic.
> Fortunately I rolled up another small hill, dropped down into some
> lower gears and as I crested the hill, was able to put it in neutral
> and drop it into 4lo then back into gear. It was working perfectly
> until some idiot pulled out and stopped right in front of me! Had to
> put it in reverse and fortunately got it stopped with about 2 feet to
> spare, with this guy staring out his driver's side window at my brush
> guard. AFTER I stopped, the clueless doofus drives off without any
> idea about what almost happened. :-P
HAHAHAHAHAAaaaa - ok - lets see - 5500 LB truck with a huge hunk of
metal stuck on the front end - comes flying at me - I'm gonna get the
hell outta the way!
>
> Anyway, our stories kinda match up during the aftermath part too, I
> went to a few parts stores trying to find whatever the heck Dodge
> decided to use for tube ends in the proportioning valve and MC.
It came much as a suprise to me this year - after having two customers
with your generation Ram come in looking for brake lines - to discover
Dodge used bubble flare brake line fittings on the Ram's. Prior to that
I only knew of GM having used that. Ford is by far the worse. Most time
there are not even two friggin fittings on one truck that are the same.
>
> I ended up drilling the rusted brake line out of the ends, cleaning them
> up with a wire wheel, then inserting new brake line through them
> before flaring it, which fortunately worked.
yup I did that too...
> Some days it just isn't worth getting out of bed.
I'd argue that all are...
heh
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