"Josh Battles" <jbattles@bankfinancial.com> wrote:
: ""dick"" <puter413@yahoo.com> wrote in message
: news:bgbhje$pc$1@bent.twistedbits.net...
:>
:> Much cheaper at auto parts store & easy to bend by hand. The hose does not
:> need to be replaced if it does`nt have any cracks. Lube up any fitting you
:> going to take apart the day before & be carefull or you will be replacing
:> lots of lines.
:>
:> Dick
: Yeah, but it's a lot of work to do the double flaring and such. It was a
: lot of work to bend up all my own lines for the 'stang.
I have yet to be able to make a nice double flare in steel tubing -
must be the cheap flaring tools I have. :-( I do have one very nice
flaring tool, but its an aircraft/AN style 37 degree single flare only.
As far as buying lines from the auto parts stores, what I have done
in the past is to use a piece of rope or a coat hangar (if you can find
a wire coat hangar these days) to bend the shape I need, and buy a
pre-flared tube which is approximately the right length. Then you just
need to bend it and bolt it up. (Easier said than done sometimes.) ;-)
---Jon-
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