Any mechanics in the house?

[Scubaf250]

So my fiancé has this truck that she got a long time ago to learn how to work on cars (hot right?) haha anyway her ex messed with it, her uncle messed with it, her dad messed with it.... NONE of them helped HER WORK on it. So now ive been trying to actually teach her to work on it. They messed it up pretty bad.

We got her get a new carb and everything all back together and there's just one more thing left and i bought the wrong tool...



This is the tranny line to the radiator on a 1976 ford f250 with a c6 tranny and a 390 FE engine. One of those idiots tried to take the line out of the tranny by unscrewing the nipple off and with the expected results. The hard line twisted and broke. so I need to crimp that female nut on the hard line, I have to tool to crimp a male nut on the hardline lol!

Do you guys know if they make a tool to do that or if I would be better off just bending a new one?


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[jcoylesr76]

the way it looks to me is the nut on the line screws onto the nipple sticking out, but with its age i would replace and make a new line with new hardware on it to make sure it seals up for you. looks like you just need a common tube flaring tool for the line side of it, and a new nut and nipple.

[luvmyballs]

definitely replace everything. get a new nipple and a new line. if you don't have bulk tubing in a flaring tool you can buy tubing with the flares professionally done and nuts installed. it comes in miscellaneous lengths. just measure the existing line figure maybe an extra inch depending on how many bends you have. definitely get a tubing bender. They are fairly inexpensive (4-5 dollars) do not try to bend it by hand it is very easy to kink .

[TheWoot]

Luv my balls up there has the right of it.

[Scubaf250]

Yeah that's what I ended up doing =P I already had the tubing bender, I love that thing haha!

Thanks everyone!


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