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Old May 13, 2018 | 12:55 PM
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Hello everyone, my brake line is leaking underneath the plastic protector cover in front of the gas tank basically in the middle of the car. If I'm correct this is the line that goes to the passenger rear. Do i need to replace the line from the wheel all the way to the master cylinder? Or can i take it apart in sections? Thanks for the help.
 
Old May 13, 2018 | 01:06 PM
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Originally Posted by sjkemp27
Hello everyone, my brake line is leaking underneath the plastic protector cover in front of the gas tank basically in the middle of the car. If I'm correct this is the line that goes to the passenger rear. Do i need to replace the line from the wheel all the way to the master cylinder? Or can i take it apart in sections? Thanks for the help.
If it's anything like my wife's 2000 Accord, you'll find 2 brake lines, and 2 fuel lines (supply and return) under that plastic piece. On her car, I just replaced them all, as they were all rusty looking. You could try and do just the 1 line while splicing in a section with some of those "hi tech" line splices that O'Reilly's sells. They're better designed than the old standard line splices you get from the hardware store.
You'll need them in 3/16ths line size.
 
Old May 14, 2018 | 06:10 AM
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There's 5 lines.
2 brake lines.
3 fuel lines - supply, return, & vent.

They're all just about the same, so if one is corroding to the point of leaking, the others are probably not far behind. What that happened on my 95 Integra, it was a fuel line first.
 
Old May 15, 2018 | 01:35 PM
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Originally Posted by JimBlake
There's 5 lines.
2 brake lines.
3 fuel lines - supply, return, & vent.

They're all just about the same, so if one is corroding to the point of leaking, the others are probably not far behind. What that happened on my 95 Integra, it was a fuel line first.

Yeah, I forgot about the vent line. On my wife's car it was the left rear brake line that let go.
I looked under there and decided I was replacing them ALL if I went in there to fix 1.
 
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