I'm doing another totally boring (slightly upgraded) repair on my Jeep

"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein) 09/23/2015 at 18:36 • Filed to: None

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The brakes are squealing on my ’05 Grand Cherokee. I know the rears are fine, because the dealer where I bought the Jeep last year replaced the rear rotors, pads, and parking brakes. So it’s time for new front pads and rotors!

Just like when I ended up getting a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , I’m going to do some totally boring brake stuff.

When I first started looking at fixing up the Jeep’s front brakes, I was all “I only will use EBC pads, and I want stainless brake lines, because stopping is important!”

Well, turns out the only stainless brake lines available for an ’05 Grand Cherokee are just for the front brakes, not the rears, which seems like only half a solution to me. Plus since I wouldn’t replace the lines myself, that’s a fair amount of labor cost to put them on.

So...I gave up on the stainless lines idea, because it’s a 10 year-old Jeep that I’m just trying to keep nicely maintained and not go overboard with throwing money at it.

Instead, I’m going to order some cheap ‘n cheerful !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! (the big yellow X in EXTREME makes them stop better) and !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , take them to !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , and be done with it. Total parts price: $119.98 shipped from RockAuto.

Fun fact: I live 3 miles away from RockAuto, but they don’t let you pick up local orders at their warehouse. So I have to pay $22.41 to ship some pads and rotors a total of 3 miles, because brake rotors are heavy.

EXTREME!

Urambo Tauro > Textured Soy Protein 09/23/2015 at 18:46

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I recently had to replace some brake lines on my car, and was looking into stainless. I thought it would be prefect for life in the rust belt. But from what I’ve read, stainless is a harder material with two side effects: more difficult to flare, and more difficult to seal.

Instead, I found NiCopp tubing, which is (you guessed it) nickel and copper. It’s wonderfully easy to work with. I have high expectations as far as corrosion resistance goes.

Textured Soy Protein > Urambo Tauro 09/23/2015 at 19:10

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I assume you’re talking about either:

A) The hard lines running underneath the car

B) Custom-making flexible lines that hook up to the calipers

So, when I say “brake lines” I actually mean the rubber brake hoses .

The stainless ones are actually a braided stainless wrapping around a rubber hose, to prevent the hose from expanding in relation to brake pressure, which makes for a firmer pedal feel.

I’ve bought them for fun cars in the past and they definitely helped firm up the brake pedal. But replacing the flex lines and bleeding the whole brake system takes time and thus costs money in labor rates since I’m not doing it myself.

Since it’s just a cheap old Jeep that I want to keep in generally good working order, I figured I’ll leave the stock rubber flex hoses in place and just go with a nice heavy-duty truck brake pad.

Urambo Tauro > Textured Soy Protein 09/23/2015 at 19:20

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Ah, hoses . Gotcha.