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Originally Posted by r-mm
I mean, to be honest I want to call Pelican and ask for my money back but I don't know what the alternative is at this point. Are the leaks in these lines typically at the alum sealing rings or somewhere in the lines themselves such as the crimps? My original line was weeping, not gushing. Sort of inclined to re-use it the more I think about it. A bit of weeping seems like a better alternative to an oil starved tensioner.
Seems like the line is outside the range of acceptable error. Is there any version of the Carrera tensioners that these DO fit? Maybe some later model had the hard line routed differently?
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The fat cam oil lines typically leak at the crimp joints. The banjo fittings rarely ever leak. The end of the cam lines that go into the engine case sometimes leak because they are a slip-fit compression fitting. If you overtighten it, it'll leak because the compression sleeve/ferrule gets deformed.
The tensioner lines rarely leak. They just break due to vibration. That's why the tiny little rubber-lined clamps were added later on. Or the line breaks due to it being stressed/out of alignment. So don't be afraid to bend it a little to make the line align with it's connection points. If you have to force the line to move into position, that's what causes a breakage years down the road.