Double flare tool

[Mastiff]

So I bought a cheap double flare tool at Oreilly. I got out some scrap to practice (3/8" fuel line) and it absolutely refused to do step #1 without just pushing the line out the bottom of the flare bar. I surfed around just a bit and saw a post like "make sure the line isn't metric, because it can be just a bit smaller". What I'm working with is fuel line with the Saginaw fitting end for the TBI system. This seems to be a hybrid of metric and english. It takes english wrenches, but adapters to it are called 16mm (IIRC). So, do I need a funky metric flare tool to do this?

Just so this doesn't go off track, I'm really just trying to make a "bead" to attach a rubber line. I planned to just do the first step of the flare. In addition to using the tool as designed, I also clamped it into a vice right next to the hole I was using in case the bar was bending. Still no dice.

 

[ktmoutfront]

I ran into the same thing. If you are just trying to add a hose flair, get it red hot, put it into the flair clamp, hit it with a center punch.

 

[Mastiff]

I ran into the same thing. If you are just trying to add a hose flair, get it red hot, put it into the flair clamp, hit it with a center punch.

Wouldn't it still just slide out, or are you saying the red hotness makes it soft enough to bend before it slides?

 

[ktmoutfront]

Wouldn't it still just slide out, or are you saying the red hotness makes it soft enough to bend before it slides?

Yep. I had the clamp slightly loose with the tube sticking out. Put the tube in the vise. Heat the end. Let the tube slide into the clamp. Tighten vise. Center punch.

 

[ktmoutfront]

I forgot to add, run the end in a wire wheel when cool to round the end a little.

 

[shady]

the one they have for sale sucks..... rent the one that they have, its a MUCH better tool. I had the sliding issues, and broke the center pin off the 2 smallest anvils in the set, then just went and rented the one they had for loan and it was a night and day difference... ended up buying that one.(didn't take it back and they just don't give your rent money back)

 

[Mastiff]

the one they have for sale sucks..... rent the one that they have, its a MUCH better tool. I had the sliding issues, and broke the center pin off the 2 smallest anvils in the set, then just went and rented the one they had for loan and it was a night and day difference... ended up buying that one.(didn't take it back and they just don't give your rent money back)

Yes. I returned the one I bought and got the loaner. Worked like a charm. Goofy thing about it is that the loaner is $24 vs. $20 for the one I bought.

 

[shady]

that's why I just kept it guy told me to if I liked it