Patent ID: 7108296

Claim:
A method for joining a first fluid component to a second fluid component, the method comprising the steps of: providing a first component with a bore extending between first and second ends; providing a port on the first component in fluid communication with the bore between the first and second ends; forming external threads on the port; providing a housing having a through bore; mounting the second fluid component to one end of the housing; disposing an opposite end of the housing over a threaded port of the first fluid component; capturing a retainer in the housing to fixedly engage threads on the port to lock the port to the housing in a snap fit connection; and forming the retainer with an end portion defining an aperture and at least one resilient outer leg projecting from the end portion and terminating in a tip at an end of an inner leg extending angularly inward from an opposite end of the outer leg, the tip of the inner leg engageable with the threads on the first fluid component.