monkeystash
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Any tricks on installing these bad boys? I don't have a pipe (yet) and it keeps going on crooked. Thanks.
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AzPete
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Gentleness and persistence will get it. I have just used a mallet, rubber or leather, and tapped around the lip. Once started square, continue around the lip unless you want to smash the center and get it on in one hit. Of course, then it looks like crap.
Piece of wood and a BFH.
Sometimes it just won't go on with a mallet. Go to a parts store with many different sized sockets. Find one that just allows the outside lip inside the socket and use a rubber mallet and the socket to persuade it to go on.
monkeystash
Active Member
Like Mid said, no chance without something around it. These are really stubborn. I'm going to get a piece of pipe or a socket in the morning and persuade it that way.
jims6t6
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I use a punch on the lip to seat them.
pfssssst !
66gt350
Active Member
"jims6t6" said:
+1 That's the method that I use. Never had a problem.
AzPete
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His problem seems to be getting them to start........
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Anonymous
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Stick them in the freezer overnight.
AzPete
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"silverblueBP" said:
And you waited until this am to tell him that.......
monkeystash
Active Member
"silverblueBP" said:
Good idea! They are in the freezer now, and will be for 3 days until I get home from work.
That's one hell of a commute!"monkeystash" said:
monkeystash
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"Horseplay" said:
Lol, tell me about it!
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B67FSTB
The NorCal dude from Belgium
"silverblueBP" said:
Mark
Your freezer isn't a box to put in autoparts !! ITS FOR MEAT AND VEGS !!
Also known as FOOD :stu :stu
66gt350
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"B67FSTB" said:
Next you'll say that the dishwasher isn't for degreasing engine parts!!!
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Anonymous
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and the oven isn't for baking paint!
Opentracker
Active Member
A tool for every job - I use a piece of exhaust pipe that is the right size.
B67FSTB
The NorCal dude from Belgium
"silverblueBP" said:
And the blender is for mixing paint . :stu
monkeystash
Active Member
I had great expectations for the freezer trick...sorry Mark, no dice. I was hoping to avoid doing this, but I ended up bending in the rim ever so slightly. Worked like a charm:
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