> <VE3LVO@rac.ca>
>
> ......but not exclusively........... Bob, Thank you
> again for offering photos to chase down the brake line
> connector. HOWEVER, there I am, lying on my back under
> the beast, cutting the safety wire to free up the brake
> slave cylinder, cursing my luck, skinning my knuckles
> and punctruing bits of this and that with the remnants
> of safety wire.............only to loosen the brake
> cylinder to permit rotating of the ell connector (so's
> I can hook up the brake line). Are you with me? All
> that done and I start screwing in the ell. Your photo
> 133 of 187 in your album shows a perfect attachment.
> MINE tightens the ell into the cylinder body exactly
> 180 degrees out of whack. Can I gronch the little
> B******r around to the forward position thus risking a
> snapped ell ( and the nearest next one in UK)? ....or
> can I fashion a washer from the extra nut which came
> with the ell so as to unscrew 180 degres and tighten up
> the nut? basically how did you (or any other reader!)
> tighten up the brakeline ell so that it points forward
> to accept the brakeline? Kindest regards to all on
> board for the Christmas season. Ferg A064 lying here
> waiting, waiting................ I think the furnace
> just quit.
If you cover the (male) thread with PTFE tape. plenty of
it, the thread might go in 180 degrees less.
Richard
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