Oil line T's...second one broken so far.

[Nathan]

Am I the only one that snaps these ****ers with alarming regularity? I went to swap my electric oil pressure sender over to a mechanical gauge today and the second I tried to undo the sender I snapped the T off that it was screwed into. The worst part is that I snapped it off in the 1/8npt-1/8bspt adapter. I went to home depot and picked up another T, this one different than the last one, with a straight 1/8 npt-1/8npt male male fitting. However, I still had to extract the broken piece. So I bust out my trusty extractor and screw it in, start wrenching on it and decide its a lost cause as it is NOT budging. So I unscrew the whole 1/8npt-1/bspt fitting only to discover that my extractor has started a crack right down the middle of it. So now I have absolutely NO way to run the car until I get another of those fittings. I'm extremely pissed, I hate this brass ****, why cant they make plumbing fittings and AN fittings out of good steel instead of ****ty *** brass and aluminum? goddamn soft metal.

[bigE]

Go check out your local hydraulics shops, we have a local one here do all of our lines, and he has SS fittings that we use, brass sucks.

Eric

[Nathan]

I will probably do that once I get a temporary brass solution in place, I'm sick of this ****...I also need to learn not to tighten brass crap down as tight as I would other materials.

[bigE]

We just retapped the BSPT threads for a NPT, NPT is so much easier to find.

Eric

[Nathan]

Did you tap it out to the next size up from 1/8-27npt or just to 1/8 npt?

[PMan_S13]

I had this same problem as well (Except mine broke off in the block... just imagine the look on my face). There is a local industrial machine shop nearby that I checked out. They weren't cheap, but I don't have to worry about breaking them loose anymore with steel fittings.

[huguetpj]

I had this same problem as well (Except mine broke off in the block... just imagine the look on my face).

Hey... i broke the fitting twice in the block. The second time, out of frustration probably, I cracked the aluminium oil filter bracket... now imagine the look on MY face :rolleyes

Hang in there Nathan, I broke about 4 fittings before everything worked out ok.

[Nathan]

I'm glad to know I'm not alone...these things are the work of the devil! I'm not hanging an oil pressure sender off of them this time either, I'm convinced it's weight vibrating on the end of the fitting fatiques the metal.

[huguetpj]

I'm glad to know I'm not alone...these things are the work of the devil!

Welcome to the world of boost :pface

Quote » I'm not hanging an oil pressure sender off of them this time either, I'm convinced it's weight vibrating on the end of the fitting fatiques the metal. [/quote]

That solved my problem... seems that the oil press sender was a bit too much weight for a bronze fitting :rolleyes

[sultan]

it ain't cheap but you could always get the nissport adapter if you're too lazy to find a local place with the right fittings.http://www.nissport.com/catalo...tions