Broken Hose Connector Extraction Tool
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Greetings All,
Recently I had to extract the broken pieces of my carbon canister 'Y' connector from their hose ends recently. They were tuck in tight and quite stubborn. My solution was to screw a corkscrew into the remaining plastic pieces and pull them out like a wine cork. It worked beautifully!
I hope this little trick can save someone else some time, frustration, hose replacement, scrapped knuckles, etc....
All Best,
Allen in Allentown
Recently I had to extract the broken pieces of my carbon canister 'Y' connector from their hose ends recently. They were tuck in tight and quite stubborn. My solution was to screw a corkscrew into the remaining plastic pieces and pull them out like a wine cork. It worked beautifully!
I hope this little trick can save someone else some time, frustration, hose replacement, scrapped knuckles, etc....
All Best,
Allen in Allentown
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That's a pretty good idea, thanks for passing it along.
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+1 on Bill's suggestion to squeeze hose. I was finding it ridiculously hard to extract the old connector pieces when I renewed carbon canister y-piece. Then I remembered tip here in past about squeezing hose with pliers and it took just seconds to get old arms out the hoses after cracking them.
More like a nutcracker technique than a corkscrew (on my vintage 1988 S4), but always handy to have recourse to alternative techniques so thanks for tip.
More like a nutcracker technique than a corkscrew (on my vintage 1988 S4), but always handy to have recourse to alternative techniques so thanks for tip.
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