GMAN
Dedicated LVC Member
My radiator transmission lines are seized, and are not budging. Any ideas on getting them out without rounding off my fittings?
Radiator Transmission Lines
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chris2523
93 Mark VIII
i gotta ask, you are using a flare nut wrench correct?
and on my 93, which hadn't been apart, came loose pretty easily.
but the normal penetrating oil and some heat should do you nicely. just don't melt the radiator tank.
and on my 93, which hadn't been apart, came loose pretty easily.
but the normal penetrating oil and some heat should do you nicely. just don't melt the radiator tank.
Stangman
Project car a.d.d.
I had to put the death grip on mine with vice grips.
GMAN
Dedicated LVC Member
Yea, I'm using a flare nut wrench, but it's spinning in it as well.
Edit: 1/2" flare seems to do the trick.
Edit: 1/2" flare seems to do the trick.
beerdog
Well-Known LVC Member
use a metric. It it really a metric nut. It makes a slight difference. the metric wrench will fit tighter.
NetKeym
Dedicated LVC Member
Actually, a 1/2" wrench is tighter at 12.7mm which is obviously smaller than 13mm.
Or, put a different way, 13mm = .511811023622 inches
Pieces of 8
Well-Known LVC Member
Hmm good to know
chris2523
93 Mark VIII
that's what i used.
GMAN
Dedicated LVC Member
I am having a problem getting the top line male thread to feed into the female thread. I can't get it to go in to catch. Any ideas?
fastmark1993
Dedicated LVC Member
Ran a tap through the female and a die through the male
chris2523
93 Mark VIII
those are made of pretty soft material. nothing is bent or "mushroomed" is it?
1BadMoJoe
LVC Member
Going to toss this up in this thread, cause this is what I'm looking at but worse.
So here it goes...on mine it looks like some one grabed the metal line with vice grips and nearly pinched the line closed on the botom line lower than this picture on the radiator. Well I seen it and said screw it, looks like I'm screwed anyway and wrenched on it.
Of course I twisted the line and said fudg it and kept twisting the line till it broke off.
It was royaly pinched anyway, fudg it is the bottom line on the radiator the one I would use to a plate type external cooler??? The return line to trans,?, but now to be rerouted to a cooler than back to trans.
I tell ya I would like to kick the person whom had this car before me in the balls then stomp on em again when hes down.
Hey thanks guys for the help in the past.
So here it goes...on mine it looks like some one grabed the metal line with vice grips and nearly pinched the line closed on the botom line lower than this picture on the radiator. Well I seen it and said screw it, looks like I'm screwed anyway and wrenched on it.
Of course I twisted the line and said fudg it and kept twisting the line till it broke off.
It was royaly pinched anyway, fudg it is the bottom line on the radiator the one I would use to a plate type external cooler??? The return line to trans,?, but now to be rerouted to a cooler than back to trans.
I tell ya I would like to kick the person whom had this car before me in the balls then stomp on em again when hes down.
Hey thanks guys for the help in the past.