Anyone have experience with Explorers?

[FriboRage]

1995 Ford Explorer, 4.0

Im working on the hard lines, replacing the whole line from the ABS hydraulic unit to the left front soft line at the caliper.

I havnt taken it apart at the abs unit yet, but looking at it from the outside, it looks like it's not going to be a normal brake line fitting/tube nut... it looks like it's going to be like this..

With a male end coming out of the Abs unit for this to thread onto... does anyone know if I need to cut the end off this to save the fitting, then buy new line and put this on, then reflare the new line? Or can I buy this fitting, I dont recall seeing that anywhere before... my main concern is that it's gunna be bubble flare inside that fitting so that I cant replace the flare on the new line, since the end at the caliper was bubbled.

 

[BillBoost37]

You should be able to buy the fitting ...somewhere. I have had better luck at Autozone than Advance for various fittings. You just need to get them to let you out back where they have the whole rack of them.

Ford's Better Idea's. FBI's

 

[Govna47]

try doing a check on explorerforum.com guys there are great

 

[BillBoost37]

Bet they have a good sense of humor too

 

[Govna47]

sometimes they're a bunch of nut jobs

 

[BillBoost37]

Gotta be to work on Fords.

Mechanic buddy said to me when we were doing an engine swap. May as well roll the whole toolbox over, it's a ford

 

[Govna47]

lol sounds about right

 

[BillBoost37]

We used metric, standard and nearly every damn one.

 

[ericspecullaas]

the last ford i was in was a 73 and it was only for about 20 mins at a go it kept breaking so yeah Fix Or Repair Daily was the best thing you could ever say about it.