Need help indentifying possible vandalism to brake line

I didn't do too bad, but we're 50... actually, his mama ain't half bad, either... I'd probably listen to my options...

 

I'll offer up a possibility. I have no opinion on what actually happened, it's just something that popped in my head.

What if you hit road debris on the way home, and Amazon delivered your neighbor's package to the wrong house last night?

 

Is it rubbing on something in turns?

 

Are you Googling these or are you excavating the tattoos around your mom's waistline?

 

I remember way back when in the early 1990s we used to do your mama jokes and they were funny as hell, but there would eventually be one that would piss a guy off because his mom was probably a fat hooker stripper or some thing, and it would end in a fist fight. Good times.

Most of our material was sourced from in living color and other comedy shows that we weren’t supposed to be watching as kids.

 

All were actually just old ones I remember, I mean you can't say you never heard of them just like everyone's heard of your mom.

 

I'll call you a ray of sunshine because you came from the next biggest thing in the solar system



also no I haven't heard most of them actually lol, and I'm making these up as I go (inspired by true events ofc)

 

If it were me, I'd tend to think the damage had been done years ago, and there was an eventual failure.
Or more than likely - the wife (or OP) drove over something on the road that damaged the brake line.
** Disclaimer: THAT is unless I had good reason to suspect the wife was having an affair and wanted insurance money.

True story, so my ex-wife was driving on I-285 that goes around metro Atlanta. I think the most dangerous highway in the country. Anyway, she comes home and complains of a rattle in our Honda Odyssey when going over a bump.

The clearance is low on the van so I drive the passenger side up onto a curb so I can get under it.

I look underneath, and in one of the rear springs I see one of those HUGE metal street/water shutoff keys stuck in the spring.

How she ran over it I don't know. How it mechanically got picked up by the front tire, hard to envision. How it didn't manage to hit a brake line, or gas tank, I'm scratching my head.

I took it to Firestone because no amount of pulling on it could loosen it. The shock/spring had to be unloaded. They were impressed. We all had a laugh, and I tipped the guy.

Providing the OP has a loving wife - my vote is running over road debris at root cause.

 

Good question. Not that I can tell as I didn't see any raw metal or wear spots under the truck. But I dropped it off at the brake shop yesterday, mainly b/c I'm jusy too lazy to work on it, but it really needed the rear drums to be serviced, too (112k miles and I've never even touched them- but I got 90k out of original front pads!). Drum brakes and differentials are my mechanical kryptonite.

I told the owner everything and asked him to access what he thinks happened. I'm inclined to believe it really was existing damage from road debris or my time with the maniacs from tee-tee-oh-are-aye and it just ruptured over time. I just have a hard time putting unproven evil on somebody like that.

 

I've got to admit the truth: it turned me on...

 

Lol, that's what she says when Henry walks back across the street and hands her the biological-hazard-covered gun...

 

Was the truck jacked up for the picture? There are two rub points on yield frame/ suspension in the picture. One is long(to the top right) and one is on an edge ( top middle) that looks to line up with the damaged braiding. I know it upsets a lot of people, but very few metal covered brake flex lines meet DOT standards. They are a trade off of durability for looks. Quality hoses have a rubber coating. It will last far longer when rubbing on a suspension part.