Replacing Front Brake Hoses: Clean Fittings

Video Transcript

"In this segment I am going to cover cleaning the fittings, the brake hose fittings and the connections and I'm going to use this new hose to demonstrate basically what I am getting at. The hose is located and connects the actual caliper of the brake system to the body of the brake system. All the rest of the brake lines on the vehicle are all done in steel. This section happens to be rubber and it allows the suspension movement and the flexibility, steel won't flex and that is why you have this rubber section in here. The problem being is the dirt and debris from the road and water and everything else builds up around these connections. We have to open this up to replace and put the new line in and there is potential for that dirt to get into our brake system. So prior to breaking the lines loose on the old ones we want to go in there and clean where this fitting came on here and then all around where the banjo fitting goes just spray down with the brake cleaner and quickly brush it off with a wire brush removing any dirt or foreign debris on there and then thoroughly rinse it off with the brake cleaning. That way when we open the system up we are not going to get any contaminants in there from dirt and everything else while we are replacing the brake lining. So the first thing we are going to do is spray this down on there first and get it good and wet and let this dissolve in there a little bit and soften everything up. When we come back I'll show you how to remove all the dirt and debris off there relatively easily. So please watch our next segment on cleaning the brake hoses and connections part two."