Brake Line Failure
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JK Freak
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Brake Line Failure
Brake line burst today, still trying to shrug off the shakes. Has anybody else had problems with the lines teraflex provides with their lifts. This is the second failure from a tf provided line and I'm beginning to question their choice of suppliers. Also what other lines are people running. I think currie and re make them right?
Here's the quickest background I can write, I know it's long but I feel its very important given the nature of the problem:
When I received my kit the lines went on fine but upon bleeding one of the lines was leaking where the braided hose meets the caliper-end fitting. Called them on it and they sent a new one the next day free of charge, nice. That one installed and bled fine. This was about 2 months ago. Over the last month my jeeps developed a bad right hand pull thats worse when braking. Checked all the geometry, made some small adjustments, but nothing worked. Took it in to the dealer today and had a full alignment and front end inspection done. They couldn't figure it out so they determined it was a bad tire causing the pull and to go to the tire shop for a replacement. Halfway to discount tire while stopping at a red light I decided to do a brake test just before i was almost stopped to see if it still pulled right and SPOOF, pedal straight to the floor. Was able to stop in time with the e-brake. The passenger side line burst in the middle of the braided hose spraying brake fluid everywhere. The lines were zip tied back so there was no rubbing. This scares the crap out of me cause I'm going on an 800 mile road trip next week. I'm damn lucky it didn't happen on the freeway during an emergency stop
Needless to say I'm no longer going to run tf lines. I know brake line failure is uncommon and I consider it coincidental that it's happened to me twice now. Not trying to bash tf cause I'm really happy with teraflex products, I just questions the quality control of whoever supplies them with brake lines. I plan on calling them first thing in the morning (not to yell) but to make them aware of what I experienced.
Here's the quickest background I can write, I know it's long but I feel its very important given the nature of the problem:
When I received my kit the lines went on fine but upon bleeding one of the lines was leaking where the braided hose meets the caliper-end fitting. Called them on it and they sent a new one the next day free of charge, nice. That one installed and bled fine. This was about 2 months ago. Over the last month my jeeps developed a bad right hand pull thats worse when braking. Checked all the geometry, made some small adjustments, but nothing worked. Took it in to the dealer today and had a full alignment and front end inspection done. They couldn't figure it out so they determined it was a bad tire causing the pull and to go to the tire shop for a replacement. Halfway to discount tire while stopping at a red light I decided to do a brake test just before i was almost stopped to see if it still pulled right and SPOOF, pedal straight to the floor. Was able to stop in time with the e-brake. The passenger side line burst in the middle of the braided hose spraying brake fluid everywhere. The lines were zip tied back so there was no rubbing. This scares the crap out of me cause I'm going on an 800 mile road trip next week. I'm damn lucky it didn't happen on the freeway during an emergency stop
Needless to say I'm no longer going to run tf lines. I know brake line failure is uncommon and I consider it coincidental that it's happened to me twice now. Not trying to bash tf cause I'm really happy with teraflex products, I just questions the quality control of whoever supplies them with brake lines. I plan on calling them first thing in the morning (not to yell) but to make them aware of what I experienced.
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Yesterday, 10:55 PM
Brake line burst today, still trying to shrug off the shakes. Has anybody else had problems with the lines teraflex provides with their lifts. This is the second failure from a tf provided line and I'm beginning to question their choice of suppliers. Also what other lines are people running. I think currie and re make them right?
Here's the quickest background I can write, I know it's long but I feel its very important given the nature of the problem:
When I received my kit the lines went on fine but upon bleeding one of the lines was leaking where the braided hose meets the caliper-end fitting. Called them on it and they sent a new one the next day free of charge, nice. That one installed and bled fine. This was about 2 months ago. Over the last month my jeeps developed a bad right hand pull thats worse when braking. Checked all the geometry, made some small adjustments, but nothing worked. Took it in to the dealer today and had a full alignment and front end inspection done. They couldn't figure it out so they determined it was a bad tire causing the pull and to go to the tire shop for a replacement. Halfway to discount tire while stopping at a red light I decided to do a brake test just before i was almost stopped to see if it still pulled right and SPOOF, pedal straight to the floor. Was able to stop in time with the e-brake. The passenger side line burst in the middle of the braided hose spraying brake fluid everywhere. The lines were zip tied back so there was no rubbing. This scares the crap out of me cause I'm going on an 800 mile road trip next week. I'm damn lucky it didn't happen on the freeway during an emergency stop
Needless to say I'm no longer going to run tf lines. I know brake line failure is uncommon and I consider it coincidental that it's happened to me twice now. Not trying to bash tf cause I'm really happy with teraflex products, I just questions the quality control of whoever supplies them with brake lines. I plan on calling them first thing in the morning (not to yell) but to make them aware of what I experienced.
Brake line burst today, still trying to shrug off the shakes. Has anybody else had problems with the lines teraflex provides with their lifts. This is the second failure from a tf provided line and I'm beginning to question their choice of suppliers. Also what other lines are people running. I think currie and re make them right?
Here's the quickest background I can write, I know it's long but I feel its very important given the nature of the problem:
When I received my kit the lines went on fine but upon bleeding one of the lines was leaking where the braided hose meets the caliper-end fitting. Called them on it and they sent a new one the next day free of charge, nice. That one installed and bled fine. This was about 2 months ago. Over the last month my jeeps developed a bad right hand pull thats worse when braking. Checked all the geometry, made some small adjustments, but nothing worked. Took it in to the dealer today and had a full alignment and front end inspection done. They couldn't figure it out so they determined it was a bad tire causing the pull and to go to the tire shop for a replacement. Halfway to discount tire while stopping at a red light I decided to do a brake test just before i was almost stopped to see if it still pulled right and SPOOF, pedal straight to the floor. Was able to stop in time with the e-brake. The passenger side line burst in the middle of the braided hose spraying brake fluid everywhere. The lines were zip tied back so there was no rubbing. This scares the crap out of me cause I'm going on an 800 mile road trip next week. I'm damn lucky it didn't happen on the freeway during an emergency stop
Needless to say I'm no longer going to run tf lines. I know brake line failure is uncommon and I consider it coincidental that it's happened to me twice now. Not trying to bash tf cause I'm really happy with teraflex products, I just questions the quality control of whoever supplies them with brake lines. I plan on calling them first thing in the morning (not to yell) but to make them aware of what I experienced.
And that is why they have a lift under my Jeep.
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JK Freak
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From: Az
Awesome. I'll try and get one tonight. You customer support is great I've called numerous times. I hated saying I don't feel comfortable running your lines but I'm genuinely concerned about it. I mean this was a catastrophic failure ya know?
