What I used to do was wrap the area with electrical tape, use a cut off wheel & die grinder, slice it, use the abrasive sides of the cutoff wheel to grind down the edges of the cut and make it more conical and take off any frays, blast it out with an air hose, silicone spray it up, quickly & carefully pull the tape on and push/twist the fitting on. Once you do it a few times, it gets really easy, but leave yourself a few inches to play with in case you gotta do it a few times. Haha