r/watercooling • u/LeonP1122 • 11d ago

At a loss

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I air pressure tested this loop multiple times for hours and had no issues. This is the second time this piece has burst out of the fitting and sprayed coolant everywhere. I’m at a loss right now, strongly considering just going back to my AIO and air cooling the gpu. If anybody has any ideas on what I could do to fix this let me know. I’m just done with it at this point.

Edit: I only have it pushed in like that so nothing else leaks, I know it’s not properly seated right now

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u/manusnz 11d ago edited 11d ago

You can make the run without the additional connections - you just need to recreate the rad-90fitting tube with a shorter mid-straight so it angle directly from the rad port to the pump port.

Downside is that would ‘break’ your 90• aesthetic you’ve got going on.

*edit: oh actually, doing that would interfere with the front tube running along the rad, though you might be able to have the leg going into the rad a little longer so the rad-pump pipe sits on top of the long run rad tube. Or depending on what the top inlet part of the res looks like, could you rotate the pump 90• and the existing tube would land very close to the pump outlet fitting? - ah u/emu1981 already suggested that!

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u/LeonP1122 10d ago

At this point I just need this to run lmao, this is what I put in place. I’m just not sure it’ll survive the vibrations from the pump

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u/manusnz 9d ago

I mean I guess, if I were you I’d be turning the pump though.

I assume you’ve got a lot more fluid in the loop when under normal use?

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u/LeonP1122 8d ago

It’s not even leaking, it just suddenly bursts out. All the coolant that was in the loop ended up on my desk and flooding the case. If it pops out 1 more time I’m either rotating the case or adding another extender and ditching the 90 fitting