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[QUOTE="Tree Trimmer, post: 29605, member: 716"] fwiw, i kept blowing my ic tubes off, didnt matter what side, what end. turns out, i had clamped them down to tight. what it does is shrinks the end of the tube. think the end of a pencil, though not as drastic. if you take the tubes off, take them to the bench and gently hit the inside of the tube with a ball peen hammer, you can reform the end of the tube and mushroom it slightly out. i didnt even clean off the tubes when i put it back together, left them oily, and didnt have a problem. imo, thats better than a weld around the lip. i think most ppl overlook that when they blow the boots off. they think oh, it was the oil, or they need to clamp better, or more clamp, or more boot surface etc etc. check the end of the tube itself. you should be able to take a straight edge, i used a t-square, and just check it. or a caliper if you got one. if it bows in at the end of the tube, that was your problem. thats also what welding the end of the tube fixes. it makes the end of the tube wider again than the tube. you have to take into account, X HUNDRED degrees of air goin through those thin ALUMINUM pipes with X amount of clamping force ALWAYS, is eventually gonna bow them in. cannot get around it. i simply did a free fix, rather than spend money. :D [/QUOTE]
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