Repairing Rusted Rear Subaru Brake Line Junction (2012 Forester)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ค. 2024
- Recently lost brakes on the way home from dinner in my 2012 Forester. After getting home and inspecting things, I found that the junction for the rear brake lines had corroded badly and one of the lines had burst.
In this video I fix the issue by running all new line from under the rear seats back to the soft lines for the calipers.
Materials & Tools:
- 25Ft NiCopp (Nickel Copper) Brake LIne:
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- M10x1.0 Steel Inverted Flare Fittings (x6):
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- M10x1.0 Brass Inverted Flare Union (X2):
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- Push Mount Zip Ties
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- Brake Flaring Kit:
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- Line Bender:
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00:00 - Intro
00:28 - Identifying The Issue
03:02 - The Plan
06:13 - Rear Seat Removal
06:38 - More Plan Disscussion
08:43 - Cutting And Flaring Passenger Side Line
15:00 - Running New Line To Pass. Caliper
22:18 - Running New Line To Driver Caliper
26:55 - Wrapping Up
27:32 - Some Afterthoughts
28:21 - Tools Used
29:07 - Recap Montage
29:49 - Bleeding Considerations
31:49 - Outro - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
Thank you for the good job..My 2005 Forester x .sit backyard 3 years , now I found rear brake leak. Thanks
Thank you for the tips at the end for what to watch out for such as bleeding all four brakes despite just doing rear brake lines. Please just keep it simple like you are now (even when you get to be Scotty Kilmer). Some of us have major health issues and our brains don't function like they used to lol. Thanks again, you and your family stay well and stay safe,
First off, great video and thank you for posting this. A few things though. You said how overwhelming this seemed to you at first. EXACTLY! I have an '09 and have done brakes, calipers, spark plugs/wires, timing belt with water pump and everything around there since I had access (worst experience of my life and never again lol), all four struts...took me 2 hours on the first and then 2 hours for the next 3, rust restoration, new exhaust, new ebrake, oil sending unit...on and on....but this is pushing my limits. Sorry for the rambling, but there is a point to it lol. Don't you wish you could have watched someone fumble with it (you skipped these parts and I get that), make mistakes, tell us your thought process and why it worked or didn't (you did a great job of this when filming).
Questions:
1. How much brake line did you really need? I don't want to get 25' line but I don't see anything but that. however, if I know how much you used, that would help (including the amount you screwed up since I need to add that in for me (ALWAYS screw things up the first time around).
2. Anything you had to go back and fix or adjust after you thought you were done?
3. I don't have a lift, any recommendations to make the job easier in lieu of the lift? I would just jack it.
4. Glad you mentioned the details of the HF kit. I bought one off Amazon to save money and it was refrigerator line with nothing I needed lmao. $25 ....get what you pay for and I know that but like many, I am budgeting my monthly paycheck to the penny with no extras such as buying food out etc. So don't bust my balls too much although buying a cheap Chinese set deserves it lol.
If you get this and can anwer just one thing, please let me know approx how much brake line you used or should I just get the 25' one? Thanks and will be watching your other videos you put out as I just subscribed. thanks
just had this problem on my 07 Subaru STI, In your video you have answered all the problems i could see. This was excellant thank you
Glad the video was helpful!
Got to do this to my wrx wagon. Great help.
ayyy same here, my heart sank into my stomach when i found out i would have to drop my whole rear subframe to replace these but this is gonna save me SO much time money and pain. 04 turbo wagon 4 ever!!
awesome guide, thank you for this video
Glad you found it useful!
I have the same issue as that with a 2003 Subaru legacy. I'm gonna pray real real hard that I can just stitch fix the line leaking. Probably won't be that lucky. But I'm gonna try.
Good luck!
I thought UK cars rusted a lot until I saw yours! I think that much chassis rust would probably fail our annual inspection test (mot).
Good work on the break lines,filming and editing.
It's just surface rust in that area specifically, no holes or anything in the frame metal
Hola compañero,tengo un impreza hawkeye y queria preguntarte si los palieres yraseros tienen holguras cuando los mueves con la mano seria normal o tendria que pensar cambiarlo
In the case where the abs has to be recalibrated, any ideas how to go about it?
Usually need a diagnostic computer capable of abs service that activates the abs unit and cycles the air out.
I have heard of people taking the car out if there's at least enough brake pressure to be safe and you can get it up to like 30mph and slam on the brakes activating the abs unit and doing it that way
A friend, living in the rust belt, sprayed his lines with undercoating.
Hello. Just to be safe, when you remove the back seat, the brake line closest to the door is the right rear passenger brake? Right?
2011 forester subaru..
Yes, closest to door and "bottom" hole in the rubber grommet.
Just followed the exact steps for my 2009 Subaru Outback but for some reason no brake fluid is coming through the lines to the rear calipers. Pumped the brakes few times and opened the bleeder valve, still nothing. Any help?
When there is a lot of air in the lines, it can be very difficult to pump enough pressure to move the air out.
You can try disconnecting the hard line connection where it goes into the soft line for the caliper and wait until it gravity bleeds and fluid begins to come out (Can take some time and make sure you remove the brake reservoir cap)
Or you can try a pressure bleeder. There are two types. One type is a positive pressure, it clamps onto your master cylinder and you hand pump it pushing the fluid through the lines. The other is a negative pressure where it attaches to your bleed nipple and uses compressed air to draw vacuum and pull the fluid through the lines.
Of course with all this make sure you never run the master cylinder dry or you will have a different set if problems on your hands
Subaru has rear brake lines RECALL 2014
@david0608 I'm aware, like I mentioned sometimes the recall is more of a hassle than just fixing it yourself