Reply to "Erica needs to get hosed....."

Well, Erica lives true to her namesake.......

I fired the car up today, to heat up the system to see if my new heater core and associated connections are sound.

Nope!!! As soon as water started circulating, I could hear water....probably air bubbles then water... but never the less....a mess ensued!

Shut the car off and grabbed the 19mm wrenches to tighten the connector on the heater shut off valve..... No sooner had I given the wrench another couple of flats towards tight, and I see the monkey flyin heater tube pop out of the monkey flyin attaching nut.......!!!!!!!

After I jumped to grab containers to catch the freshly filled engine's water which was now gushing into the cabin.....and dumped them into an antifreeze jug for safe keeping...AND sopped up some out of the carpet and backing...... I removed the nut and found the flared aluminum end of the heater tube cleanly cut off and sitting in the nut......

SO, time to pull the heater box out once again and see if I can get a new flare put on the end of the tube..... Just can't get flare tools at the tube while it is in the car and in the box........

Crap!
Steve

PS Flying monkey thing is reference to Samuel L Jackson in FX's cleaned up version of "Snakes on a Plane"...... Got my own plane of snakes here and her name is Erica!!!!

PSS: Added picture of old and new fittings. Can anyone see a problem? Same mistake is also propagated to the AC side on the expansion valve fitting.....need to contact the manufacturer!