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Old Dec 6, 2021 | 12:02 PM
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Any recommendations for disconnecting the slave cylinder line? Pushing in the white sleeve is not working.
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Squirt it with silly cone or WD-40 or PB Blaster. It's stuck.
It's also a 3 handed job with no room for the third hand.
I came up with a U shaped tool that pressed both sides of the QD fitting at the same time with no hands and then it just popped off.
Don't give up.
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If you can get to the bleeder crack it open and let some fluid out, that helps.
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Originally Posted by feeder82
If you can get to the bleeder crack it open and let some fluid out, that helps.
This was going to be my next try, but the previous comment did the trick. WD40 and some cuss words!!
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Originally Posted by johnson-rod
Squirt it with silly cone or WD-40 or PB Blaster. It's stuck.
It's also a 3 handed job with no room for the third hand.
I came up with a U shaped tool that pressed both sides of the QD fitting at the same time with no hands and then it just popped off.
Don't give up.
This did the trick!! Thank you
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Glad you got it.

I had found a fuel connector release kit. Jammed the right one in this. Then slapped it a few times from behind with a wrench which fit around the line. Came off instantly.
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I used the door handle removal tool for a 1958 Chrysler. I got some weird tools.
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