tired of bleeding

[PToombs]

I didn't have any problems.
You're not actually changing anything, you're doing away with an accumulator. All the fluid will go where it did when the truck was new, or was designed to go.

[gear jammer 91"]

Thanks Pete. I was over thinking it and for some reason thought that because of the abs the rear brake's would be getting more pressure.

[gear jammer 91"]

I'm gonna go buy the adapters tomorrow. Just so I understand what I'm doing, am I connecting the two metal brake lines to each other?, or am I connecting the rubber brake line from the axle to one of the metal brake lines?

[jogl]

There are two steel brake lines connected to the ABS "accumulator". You are disconnecting those from the accumulator and hooking them together, thus eliminating the accumulator.

When I did mine the lines were hopelessly rusted so I had to cut them and use new flare nuts and flare new ends on the tubing.

Good Day,
JP.

[gear jammer 91"]

Thanks jogl, that's what I thought, but I wanted to be sure before I started taking things apart.

[dpuckett]

Actually, you are making the brake system the way it was designed back in the 60s or 70s. They only thing different about the ABS trucks and the (lucky) non-ABS trucks is the accumulator/ hydraulic doo-hickey (more technical terms) in the ABS trucks. All the other hardware is the same from the master back to the wheel cylinders. Will you lock the brakes unloaded? Possibly, definitely on gravel or wet pavement. Will it stop sooner and save your rotors and pads on the front? For sure.

DP

[gear jammer 91"]

I got the abs bypassed yesterday. My accumulator must not have been that bad because my pedal pressure is about the same. My rears do lock up easier now, but if I give the brakes a pump after the rear locks, the old girl slow's down pretty good. I'm gonna re-bleed the fronts and see if that helps.

[Ace]

The ABS on mine seems to have failed more-or-less gracefully. I invoked the ABS once in a panic stop not too long after I got the truck over three years ago. The brake/ABS warning lights came on and never went out. After troubleshooting until I was blue in the face I finally left the ABS brain box behind the glove compartment disconnected and forgot about it for about half a year. One day I remembered that issue and re-connected the ABS brain box. No more warning lights. And no more ABS either, because I locked up the rears a couple times since. The braking feel and pedal pressure or anything ese about the brakes has never changed at all ever since day one when I bought the the truck, throughout the ABS failure, to this day. Weird.