OK all you A/C experts, here's your chance to show your stuff. The PO on my Wolfie jacked up the threads on the condenser something fierce as I almost killed myself undoing the fittings. Long story short, I pinched a good condenser from my Synco (currently on jacks) and set about to putting it in. (BTW, I was changing the radiator so the condenser had to be removed and replaced so I had to flush it for it's upcoming conversion--That's another message...) Anyhow, no matter how well I've picked and scraped the inside of the steel connectors(to get out any galled up aluminum from the male portion on the condenser) on the lines, the small one keeps messing up the threads on the replacement condenser. Question of the day is: Those A/C connectors are standard industry sizes--Yes???? Or...did Hans & Franz decide to make those metric also??? If the former I can get a shop to put new ends on. If not--Well, I could pinch the lines out of the Synco but I REALLY don't want to spend the day under that beast pulling those #$%@$%lines out...Ya know what I mean? Thanks TJ |
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