it's stupid question time

[mtnmankev]

I like this people feel comfortable enough here to start a converation with these words!!

That's because this squarebody forum is NOT all stuck up and snooty, we're a down to earth group with a common interest.

 

[Bextreme04]

I was lucky enough to change mine when I had the engine out. I just took the inside line off and zipped the nut off with a socket and my impact... didnt even think about how hard it would be to get to it with the engine in

 

[SquareRoot]

yes it's stupid question time and i'm yur host Mike in San Antonio. I am currently working on the brakes of the basket cse (81 c 10 with disk brakes up front) and i can not figure out the size of the nut holding the bulkhead fitting that holds the front flex brake line to the steel hard line. Any suggestions would help. My passengers side flex line is currently in two pieces which doesn't help my stopping power. I have the flex lines but if i can't get that bulkhead fitting off i'm screwed.

Thank a bunch

Mike

Vice grips.

 

[mikeoverland]

I like this people feel comfortable enough here to start a converation with these words

life is too short to beat around the bush

 

[mikeoverland]

Vice grips.

I did try vice grips but i couldn't get a good grip on the stupid nut.....

 

[AuroraGirl]

I did try vice grips but i couldn't get a good grip on the stupid nut.....

cant be tight if its liquid

 

[mikeoverland]

well i figured out why that fitting was fighting me. the nut was originally cross threaded onto the fitting. this extraction involved the use of:
a crow bar
a screw driver
a hammer
a cordless drill
a crap load of swearing

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I WIN! (and i didn't even come close to damaging the steel fuel lines that were right next to the brake line)

 

[mtnmankev]

Glad you got it !!
And if anything gets done without a certain level of swearing, I wonder why it's going too well.

 

[mikeoverland]

Glad you got it !!
And if anything gets done without a certain level of swearing, I wonder why it's going too well.

LOL! i'll have to agree with that...