How do you loosen stuck plumbing fittings?
How do you loosen stuck plumbing fittings?
Apply a penetrating lubricant such as Liquid Wrench or WD-40 to the fixture or nut and allow it to soak in for at least two hours. Apply more penetrating lubricant and allow it to soak in for another two hours. Turn the fixture or nut to loosen it.
How do you remove a broken brass fitting?
You could take a hacksaw blade and cut the brass in two places opposite each other. Not into the tank threads of course. Then a few well placed hits with punch or chisel and you can collapse the remnants and out they come. Subject: RE: Getting broken brass fitting out of steel fitting.
What to do if your heater hose is stuck?
That quick connector is stuck in the manifold, and we’re going to get you through this challenge, one way or another. Regardless of just how broken your heater hose quick connector is, the aim of this project is to get the remaining pieces out without damaging the threads on the engine block side.
How to repair a broken heater core hose?
Then use your Easy-Out Tool to remove the remaining part of the HHQC without damaging the threads. If that doesn’t work, or you don’t have access to an Easy Out, you can use a small hacksaw or air saw tool to cut 5 or 6 little slivers into the remaining metal part of the HHQC that can be seen once the rest of the HHQC is broken off.
What kind of fitting broke off my Chevy heater?
It looks like the broken piece still in the intake is half inch pipe thread. The broken fitting must be popmetal or alluminum. Also, there is approximately two threads still sticking out above the intake. The quick coupler female part is still on the tubing. Any ideas on how to get it out? Is this a common problem?
Where is the heater hose fitting in the intake?
The fitting, which goes into the back of the intake on the passenger side and adapts to the heater hose tubing, broke. It looks like the broken piece still in the intake is half inch pipe thread. The broken fitting must be popmetal or alluminum. Also, there is approximately two threads still sticking out above the intake.
That quick connector is stuck in the manifold, and we’re going to get you through this challenge, one way or another. Regardless of just how broken your heater hose quick connector is, the aim of this project is to get the remaining pieces out without damaging the threads on the engine block side.
Then use your Easy-Out Tool to remove the remaining part of the HHQC without damaging the threads. If that doesn’t work, or you don’t have access to an Easy Out, you can use a small hacksaw or air saw tool to cut 5 or 6 little slivers into the remaining metal part of the HHQC that can be seen once the rest of the HHQC is broken off.
It looks like the broken piece still in the intake is half inch pipe thread. The broken fitting must be popmetal or alluminum. Also, there is approximately two threads still sticking out above the intake. The quick coupler female part is still on the tubing. Any ideas on how to get it out? Is this a common problem?
The fitting, which goes into the back of the intake on the passenger side and adapts to the heater hose tubing, broke. It looks like the broken piece still in the intake is half inch pipe thread. The broken fitting must be popmetal or alluminum. Also, there is approximately two threads still sticking out above the intake.
