I have a 96 SSE and just finished doing the front pads and was doing a road test to check the front brakes. After a couple of test stops below 25 mph, I began a higher speed run up to 40 mph. Upon brake pedal pressure, I felt a small pop and then full brake pedal travel with very little braking available. I slowly went back to the driveway at slow speed with very little braking and found a brake line below the driver floor to be rusted through and leaking. I also then noticed that all of the lines on the left wheel well contained excessive rust. There is an area below the driver's fire wall and on the left wheel well wall to contain rust on all brake lines with rusted material just caked on and ready to fail. I have been letting my wife drive this car to her work and somehow I missed this large area of rusted pipes. All of the pipes in this area are unsafe and I am so glad this didn't result in a high speed stop without much braking.
Now onto the repair, does anyone have a good reference or web site on how to replace these lines. Do you try to buy factory parts that match the orignal lines? Or does anyone sell replacements already sized with fittings? Or do I need to buy brake line material and try to bend and install fittings? Or as mentioned the replacement by a shop is not too expensive? Any help would be appreciated? Steve