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I had the whole car rocking from the tugging, but the QC yielded and then eventually the o-rings gave up the fight. Once I did that I shoved the metal tool into the QC and tried the old push-pull routine. DUH! So out with the wrench and take things loose. I realized that the whole fitting I was trying to take apart needed to move more than 2-inches! The other fitting, the one I have pictures in this thread above, is attached the the accumulator/drier and that firmly bolted to the firewall. (The one I haven’t yet tried.) Slip the blue tool in place, do the push pull thing, and all of a sudden I’m looking at a green O-ring! WOW! Now it takes quite a bit of pulling and wiggling to see the second o-ring and eventually the pipe is apart. I am laying on the engine in order to reach the lower quick connect. (Hey, I planned on replacing the evaporator anyway and the accumulator/drier apparently is a required replacement once it has been opened.) So my story… I decided to give the quick connects (QCs) one more try and if that didn’t work, cut them off. OK, so I’m an idiot! I got frustrated by some car parts and let that get the best of me. I hope others, in the future, will be able to find this information.
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Thanks to all who contributed here and tried to help me out! The info here has become a very good resource for these connectors. A hard tugging with the tool seated, and the garter spring in its larger position, it should work, Provided the smaller part of the tool is long enough, the orings see some type of lubrication that is not causing o ring swellinger, there is no other reason it wont come out. If you put solvent there,and it make orings swell, that may be the problem. Spray some silicon lube in there and try it again. Sorta like a gals arm scrunchy.they stretch and get bigger, the way your spring is supposed. There are, of course o rings on tube, and those are only slightly wider than the tube, but not as wide the bigger part of the tube which is why are pushing the spring bigger, round wise, making it, in theory a bigger diameter.
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You are getting spring off the tube by using the tool as a full round wedging device and pushing back into the high metal part of that line. That garter spring is inside of the large metal ring. and that collar has to be long enough to go ALL the way under the garter spring. All that white collar is supposed to be doing is pushing the smaller part of tool inside of the spring allowing the raised part of the line to slide out. It doesn’t click or clack those make no noise at all. Is there a technique for recalcitrant “quick connects?”Īs the car guys would say the bottom of a river or lake is looking like a viable option…. Either that or I’m dumber than a “quick connect!” *&^%$# This is SO frustrating! Sure looks like this is not a “normal” situation as things aren’t working as they should. So for something that is suppose to be a “quick connect” that takes no time or energy to disengage, I’m stumped.