[cfog83]

This is an easy upgrade, and if you have to take a caliper off or drain your brake fluid for some reason, its not a bad time to do it at all. After you get your wheels and rotors off, it takes less than an hour to swap out all the lines. I bought stoptech 950.40014 for the front and stoptech 950.40512 for the rear. Cost me $100 total, $50 for each kit. Before you start you absolutely MUST HAVE a 10mm flare nut wrench! A regular 10mm wrench will strip your brake line nuts. Better to be safe than sorry. A can of liquid wrench or WD-40 is also a must. Once you brake the rusty brake line nuts loose its easy and self explanatory. The back has two separate lines on each side, so don't get confused; just look for the second line along the frame.

I took this on while trying to rebuild a caliper: http://www.ridgelineownersclub.com/...n-2006-2014/139233-brake-caliper-rebuild.html

 

[cfog83]

The kit replaces both sides. The rear kit has 4 lines, the front kit has 2. I bought on Amazon.

 

[cfog83]

Here is a pic of the front:

I will say it takes quite a while to bleed the air out of the lines after the whole system has been drained.

 

[cfog83]

I didn't use a vacuum. I used the old-fashioned method; my wife worked the pedal while I crawled under each wheel and bled the calipers.

 

[cfog83]

I was hoping for a more firm pedal feel, but I didn't get that. It's possible I didn't get all the air out of my lines, so I intend to bleed them more just to see. It seems like sloppy brake pedal feel is somewhat standard on Ridgeline.

 

[cfog83]

I bled the lines again and did improve the pedal feel, but its still not as firm as I had hoped. I think this is just as good as you can get with this vehicle. I guess the only advantage to the steel brake lines is that they will last longer.