Dear Seth,

Hope you're well. If memory serves, the transmission fluid line connectors are the same on the 960, as they are on the 940. I recently flushed the tranny on a 940. I used a regular (not flare) 17mm wrench on the line fitting, and an adjustable wrench on the brass radiator hex fitting.

As to your question, as to what to do, if the end of the trans fluid tubing is damaged, I'd suggest going to a salvage yard. Find a 940 or a 960, and cut a short section of tubing, complete with the hex fitting that is at the end of the steel tubing. Use a hacksaw or, if there's room, a tubing cutter, of the sort plumbers use to cut copper pipe. Remove any burrs - and true the ends - using a fine file. Wash away any steel dust/shavings.

You can join that salvage-yard section to the longer run on your car, by finding some fuel line of the same diameter, as the outer diameter of the steel tubing. Use the rubber tubing - with two hose clamps - to form a union. If the steel tube sections meet exactly, the rubber will be little exposed to the ATF. Once a decade, replace the rubber section.

At the risk of laboring the obvious, when you join the sections, tighten the fitting on the radiator, before you tighten the hose clamps.

I think this should make a pretty durable repair.

Hope this helps.

Yours faithfully,

Spook