When do brake hoses need replacing?

Thanks all. On further inspection, somewhat humorously, it turned out I had quickly looked at the e-brake cable, not the hoses, and the hoses are fine so for now, I'm going to leave as is.

Did do a very extensive flush (except for ABS...need to look into that as I saw in the manual and have heard people mention). I don't think the last owner had done for years. I'm using DOT 4 and will replace every 1-2 years. Did a pressure bleed with Motive pressure bleeder.

All new brake hardware (not calipers, but the boots, etc.) and cleaned and lubed everything. Did the e-brake piston clockwise retraction...now ebrake works stellar (was almost doing nothing before).

New rear rotor and Hawk HPS pads, waiting for front rotors to come in (but I bled and replaced hardware) and putting Hawk HPS upfront as well.

Painted calipers red as previous owner had done a somewhat crappy job and I couldn't get all the red off without some extensive work (was going to go back to silver), so just cleaned up and prepped and painted with Rustoleum caliper spray paint. Pics below (close up has a dirty rim ;-).

rob the elder said:

LOL “heard”?
I’ve used them on several cars for years.
PunisheR is over 500 hp so the brakes see use

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So I decided to do my brakes today. Only problem is that the banjo bolt broke right in half at the hole. Luckily I was able to remove the rest of the bolt from the caliper by hand, which was strange, but feels like it seals on the two copper crush washers. I found a thread here that said these bolts are torqued to 30ft lbs, even doubled checked and tried again, so now I have two broken bolts.

Ran up to the auto parts store and bought a couple more, but any suggestions?

Well, sorry rob, but I'm not going to be keeping these on the car and am wondering if you or anyone else has any recommendations for other brake lines or companies.

Looking at the banjo bolts that came with the fronts, I can understand why they broke and the replacements I got from the auto parts store didn't, but still irritated that they couldn't handle the stock torque value.

I put the kiddo to sleep and went outside to work on my sway bars when I noticed fluid leaking on the towels I left under both rear calipers. Originally I thought the leak was coming from the banjo bolt here as well, but when looking at the drip, it looks like it's coming from the line at the end of the rubber.





Hopefully I just got a bad batch and I'm glad that rob has had good luck, but this isn't a part I want to leave to luck.

So I have to correct myself here, I don't think the brake lines were leaking... Well, probably not. If you look at the image, there is no brake fluid on top of the line, which is why I thought it was coming from the line itself. However, after going back to stock brake lines I woke up the next morning with more drips. It was coming from the caliper. It looked like it was coming from the pin that the e-brake sits on when released initially, but now I'm thinking from the mechanism that turns when you pull the e-brake.

I contacted summit and got a replacement for the rear calipers. I'm hoping to be able to get them on in the next week or so, the arrive on Saturday and I have an autocross on Sunday, want to make sure I don't have any other issues as I'm still putting the interior back in.

I ended up purchasing another set of the brake lines and there doesn't seem to be any problem with them, so I'm happy with them. Well, other then the front banjo fittings that both snapped when torquing them down, but I have replacements and they are working fine.