[Lippyp]

This was not on my truck but was a fairly major repair. My wife and I had driven in our little 1.0L Suzuki 4x4 from the UK to Spain with some friends in their similar vehicle, a journey of about 1500 miles each way for an off roading vacation. As we were dropping down into Spain from the Pyranees mountains I went to overtake a truck, decided not to when I got out and could see past it, pulled back in behind it, hit the brakes and ended up back out on the other side of the road.

We pulled in to the side of the road, and decided we had a sticking brake caliper, so we jacked the car up, whipped the front wheels off, took the brakes apart, blew out the blocked flexible hose, cleaned it up, greased it all back up (with butter!), re-assembled, bled and carried on. During this time it fell off the jack twice as we were in a rough recently cut cornfield halfway down a mountain and fortunately it missed both of us! Brakes were fine for the rest of the holiday.

I would carry more spares and a bigger toolkit next time I did a trip on that scale.