Kafka_Esquire
10-17-2016, 09:14 AM
Time for my Monday morning stumper:
I cannot fully insert the brass connector to the bottom of one of the two holes on my billet aluminum CNC brake reservoir (I used the fittings that came from CNC in the same package). One fitting spins into one hole all the way without much effort, but not the other. It stops at about half way (half the threads showing outside) and will not go further. I tried swapping the fittings, and it seems like the hole is the issue, not the fitting.
Thinking at first that perhaps I got the wrong size fitting, I opened the original FFC chromed reservoir parts that came with the kit to see if I could use one of those "extra" fittings for the CNC. Still would not go in all the way into the CNC (issue with the same hole every time). For giggles, I then tried the FFR fittings on the FFR reservoir. Oddly, each of the fittings fit only halfway into the FFR reservoir and then stop.
Thinking I might have an expansion issue, I put the fittings in the freezer overnight and left the reservoirs in the garage. This morning I tried mating the parts and still nothing. I have measured with calipers, as well as with the gauges in my tap/die set, and the holes and the fittings are all the right size. I cannot see any crud on or in any of the threads, and I also see no evidence of cross-threading.
I'd prefer to minimize my potentially expensive mistakes, so I have a few questions.
Q1: Anybody else have an issue similar to this and if so, how did you address it?
Q2: Can I get away with the existing fitting only going in half way, with or without using DOT- brake fluid tolerate sealer (I think I saw this mentioned in a thread by Bill/2Fast4U)
Q3: Should I just re-tap the hole and get a larger fitting?
I cannot fully insert the brass connector to the bottom of one of the two holes on my billet aluminum CNC brake reservoir (I used the fittings that came from CNC in the same package). One fitting spins into one hole all the way without much effort, but not the other. It stops at about half way (half the threads showing outside) and will not go further. I tried swapping the fittings, and it seems like the hole is the issue, not the fitting.
Thinking at first that perhaps I got the wrong size fitting, I opened the original FFC chromed reservoir parts that came with the kit to see if I could use one of those "extra" fittings for the CNC. Still would not go in all the way into the CNC (issue with the same hole every time). For giggles, I then tried the FFR fittings on the FFR reservoir. Oddly, each of the fittings fit only halfway into the FFR reservoir and then stop.
Thinking I might have an expansion issue, I put the fittings in the freezer overnight and left the reservoirs in the garage. This morning I tried mating the parts and still nothing. I have measured with calipers, as well as with the gauges in my tap/die set, and the holes and the fittings are all the right size. I cannot see any crud on or in any of the threads, and I also see no evidence of cross-threading.
I'd prefer to minimize my potentially expensive mistakes, so I have a few questions.
Q1: Anybody else have an issue similar to this and if so, how did you address it?
Q2: Can I get away with the existing fitting only going in half way, with or without using DOT- brake fluid tolerate sealer (I think I saw this mentioned in a thread by Bill/2Fast4U)
Q3: Should I just re-tap the hole and get a larger fitting?