Ferrari Mailing List: oil line nut stuck solid

[Douglas Anderson (dnt]

Fuel line replacement – Not really a must do if your 308 is insured for a stated value $100,000.  Oil lines – they wear out too AT the nut juncture.

SO – get a case of brake clean.  I believe it’s alcohol based, drys quickly and wont kill you fast as spray can carb cleaner.

Clean up the mess, run the car, trace what’s what.  If you can get a black light that’s cool.  Each liquid has its own DNA and will illuminate its own color spectrum.  OR get a kit like tracer products.  https://tracerproducts.com/finding-engine-oil-leaks/

In bocca al lupo

Doug

 

From: Michel Savard <mysavard [at] videotron.ca>
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 2:06 PM
To: Douglas Anderson <dnt [at] dock.net>; ferrari <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Subject: Re: oil line nut stuck solid

 

Why do you want to disturb your oil coolers serenity? leaking ?

 

No everything is fine. You’re like my mechanic. He keeps telling me don’t change stuff if it’s not broken. But I like to change stuff when I have the money to do it. That’s why I changed my FUEL FILLER and the 2 transparent tubes around it 2 weeks ago. For example, I have 2 brand new COILS ($223. cad for both) that’s been sitting in a box since …………………………………………..2013. Yes, 2013.

My mechanic didn’t want to change them.

My engine is very very very dirty at the bottom or just around those oil lines. Maybe, just maybe a tiny leak here and there is accumulating all that dirt. I changed the oil line (tube tav 9 #63) just in time once I saw the shape it was in when I had it in my hands many years ago.

 

Just being careful/ preventive/ paranoiac, etc.

 

Michael savard (1981 308 GTSi)

On Mar 30, 2020, at 4:32 PM, Douglas Anderson <dnt [at] dock.net> wrote:

 

Michael – first, my advice is free.  Therefore you know what its worth.

Super penetrant.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUEob2oAKVs

Fun test rig – your stuff came out number 1,

ALSO – after dousing the nuts with stuff – try TIGHTENING the nut.  Just a little torque.

You don’t have to move it, per se, but personally I think it fakes out the grabber atoms holding the nut on and just after they say – Hey, what gives, we’re preventing this fastener from COMING OFF!  That’s when you fake them out and go the other way.

Hope this works and that you enjoyed my personification of the fastener.  I really do think they work against us.  If not – why is it that the last screw to remove is the one that strips out its griping surface?  Hmmmm –

Good luck

Doug

PS – why do you want to disturb your oil coolers serenity?  Leaking?

 

From: Ferrari <ferrari-bounces+dnt=dock.net [at] ferrarilist.com> On Behalf Of Michel Savard
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 12:54 PM
To: DOUG <dnt [at] dock.net>
Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Subject: [Ferrari] oil line nut stuck solid

 

After doing my fuel filler job, I tried to do the 2 oil lines. From the start ,nothing was moving. First try was the closest nut: Lower oil line from lower part of the oil radiator (see picture). 32 mm wrench, nothing moved. Many many tries. It’s stuck rock solid. The whole radiator moved a lot, which was scary at times. I was afraid things would break around that nut. I mean those radiators  are not made of steel.

<image001.jpg>What now ?

I went back home and found an old can of “liquid wrench super penetrant”. Do you thing this would be enough ?

What would a professional mechanic do then ?

Thanks for any advice!

Michael Savard (1981 308 GTSi)