Shower - done it again

[curly]

You would use a set of "crows foot" wrenches in combination with your tourqe wrench to do those lines. All your regular tool suppliers have them in their corresponding price ranges.

Here is a search on HF varieties,

Harbor Freight Tools

Thanks, I'll be on the look out for a set of those.

 

[Wayne County Hose]

Curly, torque wrenches are great for this stuff, but totally unnecessary. If you look at brand new equipment, on many fittings, you see where they made a mark from one fitting to another with a magic marker or a paint stick. They tighten finger tight, make a mark down both fitting flats, then turn the fitting a certain amount of flats based on fitting size.

Here is a good rule of thumb for JIC and flat-faced o-ring and straight thread o-ring:

-4 and -5 fitting, 2 hex flats.
-6, 1 1/4 hex flats.
-8 and larger, 1 hex flat.

Keep in mind, this isn't complete turns, it is rotation of the hex flats, basically, 1/6 of a turn.

Just remember, if you undertighten, you can always tighten. Once you overtighten, the damage is done.

 

[curly]

Curly, torque wrenches are great for this stuff, but totally unnecessary. If you look at brand new equipment, on many fittings, you see where they made a mark from one fitting to another with a magic marker or a paint stick. They tighten finger tight, make a mark down both fitting flats, then turn the fitting a certain amount of flats based on fitting size.

Here is a good rule of thumb for JIC and flat-faced o-ring and straight thread o-ring:

-4 and -5 fitting, 2 hex flats.
-6, 1 1/4 hex flats.
-8 and larger, 1 hex flat.

Keep in mind, this isn't complete turns, it is rotation of the hex flats, basically, 1/6 of a turn.

Just remember, if you undertighten, you can always tighten. Once you overtighten, the damage is done.

Well, I put the new one on today and just barely tightened it (past hand tight) with a wrench and worked for about an hour with no leaks. So, I'm back in bidness. And I bgt an extra one of those fittings just in case. I hate to lose another good tractoring week-end to a fitting. If anything different on that 3rd function area breaks I'll get 2 again...cause that seems like an area that can get stuff tangled up in it easily. One a these days I'll break one and just walk over to the garage and get the replacement

 

[Rara Avis]

Well, I put the new one on today and just barely tightened it (past hand tight) with a wrench and worked for about an hour with no leaks. So, I'm back in bidness. And I bgt an extra one of those fittings just in case. I hate to lose another good tractoring week-end to a fitting. If anything different on that 3rd function area breaks I'll get 2 again...cause that seems like an area that can get stuff tangled up in it easily. One a these days I'll break one and just walk over to the garage and get the replacement

You do realize...that by buying the second fitting, you will now never need it...

I've got lots of duplicates for just that reason...

 

[Wayne County Hose]

Paul, you are an absolute genius. I totally forgot about this. Whenever I buy a spare for something I broke, it is guaranteed to never break again.

 

[curly]

You do realize...that by buying the second fitting, you will now never need it...

I've got lots of duplicates for just that reason...

That's exactly what I told the guy at the hydraulics shop...and it's fine with me if I never need it

 

[sandman2234]

Now I know why I haven't had any drive motor problems with my Steiner, only pump problems, and no pump problems on my JD. I have spares!!!

Here are some of the ratchet tubing wrenches. Not a very good picture, as mine open up large enough to accept the nut and then clamp back down.

Ratchet Tube Wrench

David from jax

 

[curly]

Now I know why I haven't had any drive motor problems with my Steiner, only pump problems, and no pump problems on my JD. I have spares!!!

Here are some of the ratchet tubing wrenches. Not a very good picture, as mine open up large enough to accept the nut and then clamp back down.

Ratchet Tube Wrench

David from jax

Thanks,

Don't think I've ever seen one of them.

 

[sandman2234]

They really are kind of unique, but work great! Mine are cheapo's purchased in 1974 in Cuba. Probably have gotten my money's worth out of them.
David from jax

 

[Dougster]

I must have caught something on that stump and the roots as I was digging it out...I'll have to pay much closer attention to that area when I get the new fitting and make sure how things look as I grapple a stump. It's hard to see from the seat...but next time I'll get up and look several times as I go to see how those hoses look.
Thanks,
Curly

OhMyGawd Curly... a.k.a. "The Grappler"... I can't leave you alone for 10 minutes and you've gone and given my machine yet another hydraulic oil bath!!!

On the other hand, I suppose this is good for general preservation and prevention of rust.

Okay... You can keep doing it. Just don't run the sump dry!!!

Dougster

 

[bjcsc]

Glad you're up an running again!

Thanks for the tool link David...those are pretty sweet...guess I need to add set of them...

 

[curly]

They really are kind of unique, but work great! Mine are cheapo's purchased in 1974 in Cuba. Probably have gotten my money's worth out of them.
David from jax

I was in Gitmo in about 75-76 or so. My brother was there a few years before that

 

[curly]

OhMyGawd Curly... a.k.a. "The Grappler"... I can't leave you alone for 10 minutes and you've gone and given my machine yet another hydraulic oil bath!!!

On the other hand, I suppose this is good for general preservation and prevention of rust.

Okay... You can keep doing it. Just don't run the sump dry!!!

Dougster

Yeah, I'm kinda mean on a machine, ain't I. But after I fixed it the second time I put about an hour on it with nothing breakin

 

[Dougster]

Yeah, I'm kinda mean on a machine, ain't I. But after I fixed it the second time I put about an hour on it with nothing breakin

Well, I suppose that's a(nother) start.

One more oil spill and your new nickname is "Exxon Valdez"!!!

Dougster

 

[EastTnFarmboy]

Curly, you might want to create a new profile and an alias. The EPA has been snooping around here looking for additional information on some guy named Curly.

 

[sandman2234]

I took a month long cruise to Gitmo, on the USS Lexington, as we went down there for sea trails. Only hit the beach three times, buying nickle beers and watching $100 ******.
David from jax

 

[dbdartman]

Another Gitmo vet here! Spent only a month there (6/77). Shake-down cruise & 30 day refresher training on a new ship (USCG ocean-going buoy tender, 180' long canoe). Air temp: 90+, bay water temp: 90+, ship's water temp: 90+, ship's A/c set at 70. Walking out on deck, or into the engine room (where I worked) was murder! NOTHING to do after hours except drink at the club until they close the sidewalks at 2200 (& God help you if the SP's caught you in public after 2200 without orders!)! When we went down (from NJ) I was a "2-digit midget" & a couple days after returning I was so short I could sit on a dime & dangle my feet!

BTW, sorry for the hijack... nah, not really!

 

[sandman2234]

I had it rough back then, no responsibilities and someone to fix my food and a bed to sleep in. I was a disbursing clerk so the only time I got out in the heat was when I went visiting somebody else on board.
David from jax

 

[curly]

I had it rough back then, no responsibilities and someone to fix my food and a bed to sleep in. I was a disbursing clerk so the only time I got out in the heat was when I went visiting somebody else on board.
David from jax

My brother was stationed there in the USMC and ended up working at the coral...where they offered horse back riding. The old Cuban horse shoer taught him how to shoe. After he got out of the marines they hired him to take care of the horses (the old Cuban went back home) and he stayed on for a year or two more taking care of the corral/horses.

Then he got me a job with a construction company over there and he went to work for the same construction company. So, he spent about 4 years there on the rock ...I spent a year. Some great scuba diving there though...we lived in a quanset hut 10 yards from the water...we'd get off work throw some tanks on (no wet suits in the tropics) and walk into the water.

He's been shoeing horses for 30-some years now

 

[dbdartman]

You're right Curly, the snorkeling was amazing in the bay. Incredible visibility. Laying on the surface, things 15'-20' down looked like you could just reach out & touch them! I will, however, not go into detail about the weekend we steamed to Port Antonio Jamaica, or the visit to my house from certain men in black suits a couple months later.

I hear the gov paid the civilian contractors pretty well for working there.