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What tool?
Makes these flares. Seems Im bending my own fuel lines often, and some cars ( this is an old Mercury ) run inline fuel filters. I like to have a little flare in it for safety.
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63 LeMans- 69 400 w/ original transaxle. 2.69 gears. 55 Catalina 62 Mercury Meteor-all original, bought new by my grandfather 71' GTO -original 400/4-speed/3.23 posi 13.95 @ 102.1 on street tires @ 4055lbs.-now my sons ride |
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Sorry, pic didnt post-
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63 LeMans- 69 400 w/ original transaxle. 2.69 gears. 55 Catalina 62 Mercury Meteor-all original, bought new by my grandfather 71' GTO -original 400/4-speed/3.23 posi 13.95 @ 102.1 on street tires @ 4055lbs.-now my sons ride |
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Beading is the process
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I’ve used a double flaring tool and stopped part way through the first flare to end up with something close to that.
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There used to be a tool for raising the surface of the tube because I used them when I was in school many years ago. I don't know if they are still made or not. It slipped inside the tube and expanded it from the inside.
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https://www.grahamtool.com/tube-bead...e-beading-tool Looks like a nice tool but not inexpensive. Maybe there are more budget-friendly knock-offs? Or maybe you could find a local shop, like a hose fabricator, with a commercial version that could do it for you? I'd be trying b-man's approach on my budget. |
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Something like the flare on the bottom sample?
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I'm to cheap to go looking for an expensive tool. I often just solder on a ferrule from compression fitting. It's a little too big, so you then have to grind off some of it. I know it doesn't look OE but it is always hidden under the rubber tubing and probably behind a spring type hose camp.
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How about an AN to Barbed fitting? Then just flare the steel line?
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Yes thats pretty close to what you want.
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1964 Tempest Coupe LS3/4L70E/3.42 1964 Le Mans Convertible 421 HO/TH350/2.56 2002 WS6 Convertible LS1/4L60E/3.23 |
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Yes. I’ve put regular single flares in lines in the past, and it can be a pain to get the lines on. It doesn’t have to be perfectly like the bubble I pictured, but something to hold the rubber line in place.
This is what was coming out of my fuel pump, and then 2 1/2’ of rubber line to the filter, a liability! Rather have a tool, than rely on having fittings and such around that I always seem to be out of. Thanks everyone.
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63 LeMans- 69 400 w/ original transaxle. 2.69 gears. 55 Catalina 62 Mercury Meteor-all original, bought new by my grandfather 71' GTO -original 400/4-speed/3.23 posi 13.95 @ 102.1 on street tires @ 4055lbs.-now my sons ride |
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I have made hundreds of feet of fuel and brake line with the Mastercool hydraulic flaring tool. It's a little pricy but does it all. Double flare, ISO flare, quick disconnects, barbs, it does it all. 3/16-3/8".
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I use the mastercool tool and just use a partial squeeze with the first flare step of a double flare process, as mentioned above
George
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Throw your old flaring tools in the trash!!!
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