willie59
Administrator
That someone would be me. I totally understand your sentiments as being a dealer tech, that's top notch thinking. But to be clear, I'm not suggesting beating the dog snot out of a fitting, rather, well placed smacks on the steel, not dings, dents, or codswallop. Steel is malleable, any blacksmith knows that and so should wrench benders. Case in point, I once had a 200 class rental excavator on a steep slope blow one of the hoses at the arm (stick) cylinder. That hose failure covered the machine with oil. On that slope with the machine covered with oil was neither a safe nor ideal situation to remove and replace that hose with wrenches, -16 JIC IIRC, I had to get the machine off of that slope to safely replace that hose. Choice of tool, a hammer. Carefully climbed the boom standing on the boom hoist cylinder while firmly gripping the pipes on top of the boom. Once in position, still firmly gripping a pipe with one hand, started smacking the JIC hose connection of the failed hose with the hammer and knocked it loose. Once I got it loose it promptly got a JIC cap fitted to the pipe fitting. Carefully clumb down from the boom, fired it up, lifted boom and walked that slimy animal to flat ground where I could safely do the hose replacement. There are times a hammer is a mechanics best friend.
