Help! Can I cap off a rear brakeline with a bolt?

[Ranger850]

meh its a slow day, I'll reply to anything....

It must really be a slow day. We just resurrected this thread. It is WAY more interesting. We've already doubled the post since @KimmyD did CPR.

 

[Dirtman]

Brakes help slow you down.

 

[sgtsandman]

Not if you put a bolt in the brake line. At least not as well.

 

[Snoranger]

Not if you put a bolt in the brake line. At least not as well.

It’s a proportioning screw...

 

[pjtoledo]

no, it would be a partitioning screw.

 

[Will]

You don't need the rear brakes so it's best just to let them run dry. I wouldn't want one side working and the other not working, I don't think. My '74 Bonneville in high school lost it's rear brakes when I left the road and went through a cow fence, by accident. It only mattered on wet days when I went to stop hard and skidded the front tires. And on snowy days. With ABS, might be okay. You will lose 30% of stopping power, maybe less with a pickup truck, empty. And set yourself up for legal and criminal disaster if you get caught killing someone (never mind ending their life or worse) with a known faulty part--a fact which you just published over the internet and can never take back again that you admitted knowing about it.

 

[Dirtman]

I'm sexuaIIy attracted to dinosaurs.