Rear drums. Again, my own fault. I knew I needed to replace the shoes for a while, but, I was lazy.

I also needed to replace the wheel cylinder, and the brake line seized to the fitting.

I wasted a day trying to flare the line only to learn that:

A. The steel in the line was tough enough to not allow me to do a proper double flare, and

B. The lines use an effing bubble flare which I can't do since no one has the tools in stock to do that and on a holiday weekend no one can get it.

Obviously, the double/inverted flare wouldn't have sealed even if I had gotten one to take, but...

I found a line at a parts start with the correct fittings and flares so I'll be starting to put everything back together once the thunderstorm passes. 😡

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Yeah gets me every time. After like a dozen brake jobs, I did finally spend the big money on a nice hydraulic flare tool from Matco I kept screwing up the flares or breaking the tools.

This weekend was brakes for me too! I ceased (they seem to have freed up) both drivers side calipers last week (they had like 500 miles on them since new OEM install) out of nowhere. My entire brake system (except abs module) has less than 5000 miles on it.