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Spent yesterday configuring my oil system on the RV-8. I should have
heeded Rusty's warning on those "Easy push-on oil line fittings" The
Summit description says "no more busted knuckles trying to assemble oil
lines". Ha! I'm an FAA "standard 170 lb pilot" but that is not
enough force to put on those blasted fittings. Anyone know a trick to make
them easier to put on?
Hi
Tracy,
You
did see the instructions that say to put oil on the fitting, right?
You could probably do a small AN-6 line without it, but you'd never do
the larger ones. It really seems wrong to put oil on these, since they're
just a friction fit, but they ain't coming off.
(for
others) My joke was that there's a 180 lb minimum weight limit for the
AN-12 size fittings. In other words, if you can't put at least 180
lbs (and twist), they won't seat. I had the fittings in a vice,
on the corner of a workbench. One foot was on the workbench, and the other
was on a ladder next to the work bench. The trick was suspending all
of my weight on the hose, while twisting. This requires a lot of
faith in your vice, and sense of balance, particularly when
you realize what part of your anatomy is suspended precariously above the
vice during this operation :-0
BTW,
there is a press type tool for doing these hoses, and I presume it's expensive,
unless you can "borrow" (perhaps not the most accurate
term <g>) one from work :-)
Tracy (finally getting my XM weather activated)
Cheers,
Rusty
(Garmin 396 sitting on the floor next to
me)
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