I was thinking that you wanted a quick fix for now.
yes, the smart move would be like you are doing, take out the bad !
back in my working days, we had a saying that we would throw at the foreman, who would sometimes want a temporary fix
on a job, we would say;
"why is it we never find time to do a job right the first time, but we always find time to correct it the second time."
yes Twilight, do it right the 1st time, you will not regret it.
That IS the quick fix, lol. $5 later, and the copper tube is in, and appears to work fine for now. I'd still like to find a flexible like it had, as the copper won't hold up indefinitely to being adjusted, but it will get me by, and I have 2' of it, so I've got enough extra to redo it twice.
Newly discovered catastrophe, when the pump is running, it's squirting coolant out around its drive shaft. I haven't gotten to look at it closely yet, lost my flashlight, but my hoping that it was like an old plumbing valve with packing under a nut that just needs tightening didn't pan out... The nut just kept spinning. I'll have to find my flashlight and take a closer look to figure out what's going on...
