[DeTomaso] Condenser fitting

[Forest Goodhart]

I don't think the shoulder is a problem. It is there to seat the o-ring. It appears from your initial photo that the o-ring adapter was never seated properly into the condenser fitting. You should not be able to see the o-ring. The shoulder may be keeping the AN flare from seating on the 45* flare however. If it were me I would have the flare fitting on the hose changed to an o-ring fitting and be done with it.
Good luck,
Forest
 

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 From: Tom Shinrock via DeTomaso <detomaso at poca.com>
To: detomaso at poca.com 
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 2:13 PM
Subject: [DeTomaso] Condenser fitting
  

   Sometimes I amaze myself how stupid I can be.

   I received a lot of good advise suggesting that I had a flare adapter
   in an o-ring fitting on my condenser.  I was convinced enough to go try
   and pull the adapter out of the fitting.
   Well, when I pulled back the threaded barrel that screws into the
   female flare fitting guess what I saw.   It is a straight flare.   I'm
   now guessing (as Larry Finch suggested) that the shoulder on the flare
   was created when the AN fitting was tightened down on it.
   So now I'm trying to figure out my next move beyond replacing the AN
   connector.  Can the flare be reworked to remove the shoulder?
   Tom

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   I don't think the shoulder is a problem. It is there to seat the
   o-ring. It appears from your initial photo that the o-ring adapter was
   never seated properly into the condenser fitting. You should not be
   able to see the o-ring. The shoulder may be keeping the AN flare from
   seating on the 45* flare however. If it were me I would have the flare
   fitting on the hose changed to an o-ring fitting and be done with it.
   Good luck,
   Forest
   From: Tom Shinrock via DeTomaso <detomaso at poca.com>
   To: detomaso at poca.com
   Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 2:13 PM
   Subject: [DeTomaso] Condenser fitting
     Sometimes I amaze myself how stupid I can be.
     I received a lot of good advise suggesting that I had a flare adapter
     in an o-ring fitting on my condenser.  I was convinced enough to go
   try
     and pull the adapter out of the fitting.
     Well, when I pulled back the threaded barrel that screws into the
     female flare fitting guess what I saw.  It is a straight flare.  I'm
     now guessing (as Larry Finch suggested) that the shoulder on the
   flare
     was created when the AN fitting was tightened down on it.
     So now I'm trying to figure out my next move beyond replacing the AN
     connector.  Can the flare be reworked to remove the shoulder?
     Tom
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