so for the past 3 months I’ve really been looking forward to doing an autocross event with my regal. It seemed like a fun event. Even if the regal won’t be all that competitive. There’s an event coming up this Sunday I planned to attend.
So I pull out the car from the garage after work today to look things over and just to make sure it’s GTG. Overall it seems alright, I know it needs a battery tie down bracket, but I felt confident I’d be able to obtain one by Sunday.
I go to restart the car and I get nothing. No starter, no gauges, no headlights. I trouble shoot it for about 2 hours and find it was only a loose wire to the solenoid. It was annoying, but simple enough.
While I’m underneath the car I see fluid gathering on the headers and a nice little stain on the driveway. I trace it down and find that the header rubbed on the brake line and now it’s leaking.....FML.
Doesn’t look like I’ll be racing at the opening event this year.
I am glad that I was able to figure out the electrical issue, and that I was home, and that I didn’t find out about the brake line while going down the highway. But damn this sucks..
Anyways how should I deal with this issue?
It was the top brake line on the passenger side. I’m pretty sure it’s the rear brake line but it was getting dark and was ready to just to be done with it for today.
Should I get brand new prebent? Or some other type?
So I pull out the car from the garage after work today to look things over and just to make sure it’s GTG. Overall it seems alright, I know it needs a battery tie down bracket, but I felt confident I’d be able to obtain one by Sunday.
I go to restart the car and I get nothing. No starter, no gauges, no headlights. I trouble shoot it for about 2 hours and find it was only a loose wire to the solenoid. It was annoying, but simple enough.
While I’m underneath the car I see fluid gathering on the headers and a nice little stain on the driveway. I trace it down and find that the header rubbed on the brake line and now it’s leaking.....FML.
Doesn’t look like I’ll be racing at the opening event this year.
I am glad that I was able to figure out the electrical issue, and that I was home, and that I didn’t find out about the brake line while going down the highway. But damn this sucks..
Anyways how should I deal with this issue?
It was the top brake line on the passenger side. I’m pretty sure it’s the rear brake line but it was getting dark and was ready to just to be done with it for today.
Should I get brand new prebent? Or some other type?