Jon, look around for Krown penetrating oil. Its a predominantly large blue aerosol can.I know the owner of my local garage, and after many years in business he found this stuff, and won't use anything else as a penetrating oil. I actually convinced him to sell me a can because the only place around here that carries it is the Kemptville Truck Centre.

 

Cool. Thanks Whanrow.

I recieved the tube today

But of course, there's always a setback. I didn't realize that I hadn't just removed the tube, but also the threaded connector for the tube too!

Matt's threaded connector, I'd assume, is still on his engine, being used by his FMOC lines. So I found the old part I had hacksawed off the old tube and tried to separate tube from connector.

No Dice.

So then I turned my attention to my spare 12a (which is from a 79 that had an FMOC, but the threaded connector is the same) and tried to get *that* one off. Same deal, I partly stripped it trying to get it off.

So I'm soaking the tube end + connector in Liquid wrench in the hopes that tomorrow I'll be able to pry them apart and finally install the tube properly! Yay!

We'll see. And any of you who've been following my Radiator/fan thread already know this, and know the fan problems I've encountered. There's *always* something!

We'll see how tomorrow turns out.

Thanks Matt, for coming to my rescue on this one!

Jon

 

Jon, after it has soaked for a while, put some heat to it. A hand held propane torch will work.

 

Good luck, jon. I did the very same thing taking my behive off. But I didn't care too much since I was converting to FMOC. I did wish I hadn't trashed it for this very reason - so that I could help someone out.

Making your own hoses isn't too hard if you have to go that route. Just call Summit/Jegs/whoever and order -AN fittings, -AN to metric adapters and some bulk hose. I made my own hoses for the FMOC and they've worked great.

 

I'm glad you got it ok, I hope it was fine through shipping. I took mine off an engine that was out of the car. I'd imagine it would be harder to get at with the engine mounts in the way. Another option if you want more clearence is to jack up the engine with a 2x4 supporting the oil pan, and remove the front engine mount to give you a bit more leverage. Best advice is to soak it with penetrating oil, while tapping it with a hammer and chisel to get the oil into the threads, and even heat with a torch as previously mentioned. Keep working at it and keep oiling it. It'll come loose, maybe even buy a proper size boxend wrench, right tools make it easier.

Best of Luck

 

I found an even better way to do it.

When liquid wrench overnight didn't work, I sat there looking at it for a bit, then I clamped two sets of vice grips on it and went crazy.. that didn't work... So I sat there looking at it again and it dawned on me! I'm *holding* it in my hand.

So I took it (in all its portability) down to Canadian Tire (local store that's like halfway between a car parts store, a hardware store and a walmart) and handed it to the guy. I asked him if he could get the two apart, and he just put one end in a vice, slipped a socket on the other side and hit it with an air powered impact.

Boom, two pieces. Clean, perfect.

Life is better when you have the right tools for the job.

Brought it home and installed everything. The new beehive is in place with Matt's hose and I'll let you guys know how it all holds up if I get it started tomorrow.

So Disaster averted! Thank you all, especially Matt.

I will post pics. I'm loving this digital camera thing.

Jon