I am scratching my head with this. I have a 99 4 door 4x4 blazer lt, it is leaking brake oil out of the hose side of the bracket under the door on the driver side where you can adjust the emergency brake, obviously it is a cable so there should be no oil anywhere near it, but fluid seems to be coming out of the fitting on the hose side of that bracket. I pulled the cable down there and it seems to work fine.

The weather in Cleveland is not so great, I still need to pull the wheels off and check the entire system to find out what exactly is going on but I am loosing a small amount of oil, I have to pour a little into the system every few days.

Sounds weird but any experience with something like this would help to limit time out in crappy weather tonight, thanks in advance.

 

Sounds like a leak on your master cylinder that is somehow making its way down to the ebrake cable.

 

can't, cable side just goes to the epedal and is clean anyway. The bracket side where it joins that hose/jacket that takes it into the system on the wheel is where I noticed the leak, like i said though its cold out and i have not bothered to try to get that wheel off yet to really look. I can get what is going on back there but i just bought this blazer last week and it is the first chevy i have owned. great car in general even considering the high miles but i can't imagine exactly how the rear brakes could push oil into that cable's jacket.

 

The leak does not have to be coming from the rear brakes to get into the cable. It is more likely coming from one of the brake lines off the master cyl or the master cyl itself, or the ABS system and following a path through the engine compartment that ends up in contact with the parking brake cable.
It is very common for fluid leaks to follow wires hoses and cables ect.. and end up dripping a good ways away from the actual leak.

Start at the top of the system with the master cylinder where you add the fluid and work your way down tracing the lines as you look for brake fluid leaks.

 

It would have to make it through that adjusting setup too to get all the way to where it's at but thanks, i'll check that out

 

since its a newer truck could there possibly just be fluid in the cable if its a closed cable set up? i think speedos and other cables have fluid in them

 

New to me but it's a 1999. New problem is coolant leaking from somewhere so now I have to try to solve that in 10 deg. weather too.