Striker1423
Newbie
On my truck I had a massive cooler line leak, so I ordered a stainless steel kit from Lines to Go and set about following their replacement video here:
I tightened the lines, started the truck and all was good at the trans, adapter end, and main lines except I had a leak at the top and bottom flares for the in/out adapters on the transmission itself. I grabbed my short wrench and cranked them both tighter and the leak appeared to stop. Drove it around a while and got out to look. A drip was on the bottom of the top trans line (obviously flowed down the line to the bend). Looking at the fitting it still is leaking between the line and threads, just slowly. I loosened and re-tightened the fitting again with my stubby wrench to the awkward point my hand made a lovely crunching noise and now hurts, but the leak persists. Is this typically a flare issue? I suppose it's possible a piece of dirt got up there as getting the lines into position was a cluster and a half laying on the ground... Easy my ass. The flares looked just fine to me, so I don't know what else to think.
Should I pull the line back out of the adapter and see if I can't get it to reseat?
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I tightened the lines, started the truck and all was good at the trans, adapter end, and main lines except I had a leak at the top and bottom flares for the in/out adapters on the transmission itself. I grabbed my short wrench and cranked them both tighter and the leak appeared to stop. Drove it around a while and got out to look. A drip was on the bottom of the top trans line (obviously flowed down the line to the bend). Looking at the fitting it still is leaking between the line and threads, just slowly. I loosened and re-tightened the fitting again with my stubby wrench to the awkward point my hand made a lovely crunching noise and now hurts, but the leak persists. Is this typically a flare issue? I suppose it's possible a piece of dirt got up there as getting the lines into position was a cluster and a half laying on the ground... Easy my ass. The flares looked just fine to me, so I don't know what else to think.
Should I pull the line back out of the adapter and see if I can't get it to reseat?