I hate brakes.

"Berang" (berang)
11/10/2016 at 20:25 • Filed to: None

The brake system is the most annoying system in any car. Gross fluids, stupid springs, crappy rubber parts, everything that is annoying on its own amalgamated into one abominable mess. Here’s how to remove the front brake hoses on a SAAB 95:

After removing the union nut and separating the hard line, there a retaining nut that can only be removed by sticking a socket wrench with an extended socket through a hole in the inner fender. You can’t remove it from the inside because line runs at an angle through the inner fender, so there’s no clearance for the wrench to turn. And you can’t make that clearance by putting on an extension because then you have no space for your hands. So you have to stick the wrench through the opening, socket on the inside, handle sticking through at an angle on the outside, which gives just enough space to loosen the nut one click at a time. It’s super fun!

Then you get to put the new hose in! Same deal, get the nut finger tight, and then wrench it down one click at a time.

Old hose. Passenger side was even worse, I think it may have been original, this side had been swapped out before.

DISCUSSION (11)

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > Berang
11/10/2016 at 20:37

http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200668189_200668189

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > Berang
11/10/2016 at 20:37

Have a Swedish brake tutorial

Urambo Tauro > Berang
11/10/2016 at 20:44

From what I can make of the pics, I’m not liking the way that’s designed. That hose looks like it spends an awful lot of time under strain.

Berang > My X-type is too a real Jaguar
11/10/2016 at 20:47

All of that is exactly how things work.

Berang > Urambo Tauro
11/10/2016 at 20:48

It looks that way, but in reality it doesn’t move that much, lock to lock.

Urambo Tauro > Berang
11/10/2016 at 21:02

Really? The bends in the old hose (in that pic where it’s laying on the ground) look rather dramatic. That must be its position with the wheels straight, so I’m assuming that it bunches up while turning one way, and straightens out while turning the other.

Berang > Urambo Tauro
11/10/2016 at 21:06

Yes, but only a tiny bit. In the pics it is turned out, full lock, and you can see it still has a bend in it.

Urambo Tauro > Berang
11/10/2016 at 21:11

Huh. I’m surprised that it doesn’t have a steel section pointing it in a better direction before transitioning to rubber.

Urambo Tauro > My X-type is too a real Jaguar
11/10/2016 at 21:12

Best co-driver EVER.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Berang
11/11/2016 at 03:33

are the hoses blown out or collapsed inside?

Berang > pip bip - choose Corrour
11/11/2016 at 12:42

The passenger side was seeping fluid and quite dried out. The driver’s side just had those cracks in the outer casing.