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Re: Clutch Hose Replacement '70 MGB-GT

To: john peloquin <peloquin@galaxy.ucr.edu>
Subject: Re: Clutch Hose Replacement '70 MGB-GT
From: Art Pfenninger <ch155@freenet.buffalo.edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 07:35:42 -0400 (EDT)
        Get a crows foot wrench, it will only take a few minutes to get
the hose off. 
...Art

On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, john peloquin wrote:

> Dear netters:
> 
> This weekend, I replaced my Brake MC, and while I was at it, I thought I
> would replace the clutch hose between the metal line from the clutch MC to
> the slave cylinder. Well, wouldn't you know that you couldn't fit a wrench
> (at least none of the Craftsman wrenches) I have into the space available
> to loosen the nut to replace the hose. The fitting to the metal line line
> is much like that to the flex lines for the brakes, except bigger and
> unapproachable due to "steric hindrance" from the starter solenoid! 
> 
> Anyone out there with a suggestions- besides pulling the starter?
> 
> Is this a dreaded "Special Service Tool" situation?
> 
> Thanks much!
> 
> "Never ascribe to Malice that which can be explained by Ignorance."
> John J. Peloquin, Assistant Research Entomologist
> Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521
> 
> 


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