How does this seal?

[georgia088]

Had to remove bell housing from jd450 loader to replace seal. I am in process of reassembly. In order to get bell housing off, a 90 degree fitting must be unscrewed from the transmission front cover because it goes through a hole in the bell housing to attach to the transmission front cover.

From that 90 it goes to the oil cooler by the radiator via hose/pipe.

My question is how does this fitting seal? It appears to be regular pipe threads. I can tighten it by hand, but the part that the hose clamps over the nipple must point in the correct direction to get hose to the oil cooler. If I try to tighten another turn, it gets tight, so tight that I must use either a 1-1/8 wrench or pipe wrench to turn. it feels like it’s going to break before I can get a full turn so that the nipple is headed in the right direction.

It is like the threads have bottomed out in the transmission front cover. But if I loosen to where the nipple is headed in the right direction it is barely hand tight. Can this possibly seal? As, this has quite a bit of pressure I would think.

It is part number 14 in the transmission oil cooler lines and filter (35-25) in the schematic and there is no mention of a proper way to tighten in the service manual.

Thanks.

[Jim B]

See your thread about this on Yesterday's Tractor for my thoughts.