I can see many people having to have radiators replaced because they put side pressure or clamped down too hard on plastic hose barbs...
In the past, I've used tools like this that I fashioned to do the same job on high pressure pneumatic lines, but crimped clamps work much better.
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1987 560SL
85,000 miles
Meet on the level, leave on the square. Great words to live by
Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread. - Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, 1821.
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