The junkyard guys keep yanking brake lines instead of cutting them clean

Went to Pull-A-Part last Saturday to grab a brake line off a 95 F-150. Some guy before me just yanked the line out of the clips and bent it at the fittings. Now the whole section from the master cylinder to the rear axle is twisted up like a pretzel. I get that you want it off fast, but now I gotta replace like 3 extra feet of line and re-bend everything. Anyone else run into this or just me?

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barnes.shane9d ago

Yeah man, that pretzeled line thing is exactly why I always bring my own flare nut wrench set when I go to the yard. I read on one of the truck forums that a lot of those guys pulling parts are just flippers who don't give a crap about the next person, they just want the whole assembly out in 30 seconds. It's a bummer because that 95 F-150 line is a real pain to route back through all the frame clips even when it's straight. I'd rather spend an extra minute with an 8mm line wrench than deal with that mess.

jamie_clark7d ago

You try bringing a small butane torch? I heat the fittings for 10 seconds on stubborn ones at my local yard, comes right off without wrecking the line.