Quote Originally Posted by TomOfTarsus View Post
Thank you all again. I had to go back with the plastic elbow, but I'm wondering if aluminum would make much of a difference - it was the O-rings that had allowed the leak, the elbow was intact. Dumb thing, though, the parts store guy says a local garage is ordering them all the time...

But I'm good an not leaking anymore, so thanks again all. FWIW, i was able to get 25 ft-lb on the larger bolts and 11 on the smaller
From everything I've seen in these forums. You should go with the aluminum elbows when you can as the plastics ones will fail on you it's just a matter of when.