field repairs

[skyking]

Had a bit of drama in the mountains Friday. I hit an unexpected huge rut in the road while towing the 10,000 pound travel trailer. truck bottomed out like never before, and a projecting part cut the right rear hard brake line and started dumping fluid. I was going down a 5% winding grade and started losing pedal fast. I applied trailer brakes, limped on down into a little town where nobody had brake fluid or tools.
I unhooked the trailer, finished cutting through the line with a pair of pliers, and folded it over and hammered it shut with a hatchet. Leak stopped, 3 out of 4 truck brakes restored. I scooped fluid from the reservoir that had plenty to the one that was low, pumped them up and had a good pedal. hooked the trailer up and got it to the campground. Saturday I took the truck to a nearby NAPA that had a generic line and the wrench I needed. Bent up new line, added fluid, bled the brakes out in the street. Bedded line with zip ties and silicone.

[cfg83]

skyking -

Great DIY! You could probably convert that into a CarTalk puzzler (aka how did you fix it).

Ha ha, maybe you should be called RepairKing or MacGyverKing.

CarloSW2

[gone-ot]

...a viagra™ advertising moment: "...this is the era of knowing what to do..."

[Ultra-Orange]

As they say. Necessity is the mother of improvisation. I once limped to town using my best girls nylons for an alternator belt (the hard part was getting them away from her).

[skyking]

Originally Posted by Old Tele man

...a viagra™ advertising moment: "...this is the era of knowing what to do..."

I believe you win the internet for today.
Is that old TELEvision, or old TELEphone?

[gone-ot]

Originally Posted by skyking

I believe you win the internet for today.
Is that old TELEvision, or old TELEphone?

...uh, neither, that "Tele" is for TELECASTER™, I play guitar, too.

[skyking]

Glad I did not go with the old telephone man. I was going to drop a mnemonic device that only an old telephone guy would know