A/C Help Please

[PolishSausage]

I need to seperate my pump arm pieces to replace the ram....I cant get it to seperate at all,tried pliers and strap wrenches...this is becoming a total PITA...help is appreciated...

[HoppysMag]

time for the say all answer, fire and lots of it. is it lock tited? just stuck whats up?

[-=Squid=-]

I bet its locktited, I think you can soak it in hot water and it will help. Also, you can just take 2 pliers to each of the rods and use akk your might to get it undone :) They are supposed to easily unscrew.

[PolishSausage]

It's how it came from WGP...I'm gonna go try that soak in hot water thing...see if it helps

[darklord]

yeah, if it's loc-tited, boil some water and soak it in it, until you can separate it. Have you tried our good friend WD-40?

[PolishSausage]

Your going to faint, but I have no WD-40...my friend and I were...blowing up aerosole cans the other night and the WD-40 was the sacraficial lamb...

[JEDI]

Blowing..up..aerosole cans? Isn't there some rule about what you can openly admit? I think its directly related to the length of the long-pause-of-silence after the statement in question.

Reading that was very funny. I had to read it several times. Its was almost as if you were conducting some highly critical experiment, and it was perfectly natural. Ya know- blowing up aerosole cans....big deal:)

[PolishSausage]

Well, most people, including the police in my area, dont really approve of my construction of home-made explosives.

The theme I get the most is fire....heat the ***** up and i should be able to seperate this piece of crap...the problem I'm finding is that I cant grip the thing with the pliers, any suggestions?

[PolishSausage]

Problem solved...and it only cost me a $30 vise at Sear's Hardware (that i needed anyway)

[JEDI]

Tyler, can you elaborate on your solution for the nice people at home. (assuming it doesn't involve blowing stuff up). I'm actually about to replace my ram, so I can use the info.

[SyntaxError]

Originally posted by PolishSausage
Well, most people, including the police in my area, dont really approve of my construction of home-made explosives.

Bah, those crazy North Caldwell cops... How I can get stopped on my bike at age 12 for, get this, speeding, boggles my mind.

I just realized that I have the same vice you bought at Sears, you shoulda just asked my dad!

Or you could have used a strap wrench, it worked on my old cocker.

[PolishSausage]

If you've never taken that arm apart, and if its anything like mine, definitely invest in a nice vice. I stuggled with strap wrenches and pliers until I was out of breath and still didn't get the thing to budge, AT ALL!

So for $30 at Sear's Hardware I get a nice Vice that suctions to the table surface(saved me from drilling into my table). So I removed the arm from the marker, set the cylinder portion(what the ram screws into) in the vice and really cranked down on it. Then I grabbed a small craftsman strap wrench and just unscrewed it.

Certainly felt like an arse after struggling with it, boiling it, and holding a lighter to it. The whole thing took less than 15 seconds to do with the right tools.

[FESTUS33]

Yup Proper tool's for the Job always work's.
I know what you mean about feeling like an
Arse, Been there Done that.
Rick