I completely destroyed a -20 hose fitting attempting to assemble my new radiator hose. Does anyone have a solid process in installing these -20 fittings w/o scratching or crushing it?
One end was in the vice of my milling machine and the other end was being turned by a huge crescent wrench and a 3ft long cheater bar. This process ended up crushing the part in the vice b/c it was trying to spin in the jaws then the part threading into the nut got cross threaded .125" from being fully tightened down. Naturally the anodizing is gouged to hell too.
For those who have done the -20's w/o scratching them how did you do it?
ks
One end was in the vice of my milling machine and the other end was being turned by a huge crescent wrench and a 3ft long cheater bar. This process ended up crushing the part in the vice b/c it was trying to spin in the jaws then the part threading into the nut got cross threaded .125" from being fully tightened down. Naturally the anodizing is gouged to hell too.
For those who have done the -20's w/o scratching them how did you do it?
ks