Tuna,
My Warner brake controller has a brass fitting for the brake line
connection. It's factory installed. They do warn you about
over-tightening, and also warn you to hold the fitting with a wrench
while tightening the metal line into it.
<<Jim>>
Tuna wrote:
>
> > Tuna,
> > Why should you not use brass fittings? That's about all that NAPA
> > sells......
> >
> > <<Jim>>
>
> Not sure, except that the K-H instructions are most insistent upon this
> point.
> It could be that brass is too soft, and that it might be possible to drive
> the invverted flare too far into the pressure fitting in the controller.
> All i know is, once one torques down on a brass fitting into a
> cadmium-plated one, they're not EVER coming out, short of cutting and
> reaming and re-tapping...
>
> Tuna.
>
>
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