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Oil hose - what can I use?BenzBoy
@benzboy
Club Retro Rides Member 7
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Oct 27, 2007 19:01:42 GMT
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I need to get some pipe to carry oil. For some reason I'm thinking that regular fuel hose wouldn't be up to the job... am I right or can I use it alright without it hardening over time? Brake hose has been suggested but I need 8mm bore and quite a length of it - longer than any brake hose. Plus it's jube-clipped so it might not work that well on re-inforced brake hose with the ends cut off. Any ideas?
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Oct 27, 2007 20:33:09 GMT
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you could use high pressure fuel hose, efi systems are reasonably high pressure. being petrol and oil are from the same family it should be alright. best bet is to whip down the local hose and hydraulic suppliers- try the yellow pages. hydraulics specialists are often pretty helpful and obviously hydraulic hose is oil proof. they can help with what kind of pressures you need (ie. internal reinforced etc.). you got PAS probs?
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madcas
Part of things
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Oct 27, 2007 20:36:35 GMT
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Go to pirtek/earls/goodridge, its cheap enough and they will crimp proper unions on as if its for a pressure feed (PAS, Turbo Feed) and you jubilee clip it it will most likely leak.
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-Cas- Sierra 3 door SR500, Skyline R32 1JZ, MA61 Celica Supra, Yamaha YTZ250N Quad ALL IN BITS!
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PhoenixCapri
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Club RR Member Number: 91
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Oil hose - what can I use?PhoenixCapri
@phoenixescort
Club Retro Rides Member 91
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Oct 27, 2007 20:56:28 GMT
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Just buy oil hose, afterall it is designed for the job! Burton Power sell it (www.burtonpower.com, www.burtonpower.com/product_main.aspx?dets_product.aspx?PSet=97&sTxt=oil%20hose) its not so expensive and is good stuff, I use it for my oil cooler setup with jube-clips and had no problems at all. Only problem is the smallest is 3/8" (about 9.5mm) so its a bit big but sure you can adjust the fittings to suit, it'll be better than bodging around with curse word pipe and spraying oil everywhere, which trust me always ends in tears.
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Oil hose - what can I use?BenzBoy
@benzboy
Club Retro Rides Member 7
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Oct 27, 2007 21:06:07 GMT
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Thanks for the quick replies! I don't have PAS on the Benz - I get a work-out every time I drive it instead! ;D It's for an oil feed to a turbo. I'm in the planning / parts collecting phase at the moment and I've held back on posting some "I'M GONNA TURBO THA BENZ, YO!" kind of thread because if I don't get time to do it, or have to put it on the back burner I don't want to look like a chump ;D Funny thing is, the CT26 turbo I have has a flared pipe for the oil feed which I can only assume just had a pipe with a jube clip on it. So now I'm worried about it leaking! I was just going to get a t-piece made up where the oil pressure sender is with a hose barb on it to match the other end.
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Oct 27, 2007 21:16:11 GMT
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There will be a Feed and return for the turbo, Feed is under pressure and a huge amount of heat, return is just large bore back to the sump, With oil under pressure, feeding a Turbo it needs to be a proper hose, any leak there will be pretty catastrophic and will go up in flames :(w Pirtek are very resonable If you want DIY themn www.thinkauto.com is where you want to be looking, they stock everything you will need
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Oil hose - what can I use?BenzBoy
@benzboy
Club Retro Rides Member 7
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Oct 27, 2007 21:27:52 GMT
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That looks like the kind of site I need, cheers Dom! Having engaged my brain, I realised I was talking rubbish about the oil supply pipe being just flared - it has a banjo fitting. I guess something similar on the other end would be ideal. Just figuring things out really - I have all the main parts I need now, so it's just figuring out the plumbing / doing the fabbing... and then actually installing it... then running and setting it up... yeh, expect a post in Readers Rides some time in 2009! ;D
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