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flaring fuel line

wazzabie

wazzabie

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I tried to flare the end of my fuel line with a double flare. It turned out great except that Ithink the lip is to sharp. I attach rubber hose to it and the hose seams it gets threaded and sheads when I attempt to put the fuel line inside it.

http://www.corvette-101.com/flarenut.htm

It seams the double flairs are for nuts not hose.

The flair is not the same as the OEM flair GM did.

thoughts?

How do you guys make your flairs?
 
when I use it for hose, I put the little adapter in, compress it a little, so that it bubbles the end of the line, never make it to the double flare.
 
If you're trying to do a saginaw flare it takes a special flaring tool. Double flare is for use with hard line.
 
There is nothing that i know of to make that "flare". Most people just do a small single flare to help keep a rubber hose on a steel line.
 
They apparently use some sort of huge press that costs 10's of thousands of dollars, originally.

I've *heard* that there are tools out there now that can make them, that we (might) be able to afford, but I've not seen one myself. No idea how exactly they are made though.
 
I have the Mastercool hydraulic setup.... paid about $300 for it... it does just about every flare you can think of... worth it if you do a bunch of that stuff...



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$300 isn't bad at all. Anyone else ever priced out all the -AN stuff to "adapt" to the Saginaw stuff?

I'd imagine that tool would pay for itself about the first complete vehicle you ran fuel lines on, and if doing one or two here and there, wouldn't take but a few to recoup the cost.

I had NO luck in the Metro Seattle area finding ANY shop that could make the Saginaw fitting. Maybe easier now, especially if you need the bubble flare. At least you know how much the tools cost approx. :)
 
I've only usee it a few times so far, but it was funny the first time I did a couple double flares, your saying to yourself, "sheesh, I can't believe all the jerking around I did with the standard, clamp on, wingnut cheapie tool over the years"..

definitely a worthwhile investment for anyone that even uses it occasionally at work.. it does push-connects, GM fuel, 45 and double flare and metric bubble... just wish it did saginaws....

wazzabie...... most decent repair shops will have the setup i own, maybe just drop in with the line, they'd probably do it for like $10....
 
have had my master cool unit for over 5 years now. love it everytime i use it to make lines. :D got mine when thay first comeout at just under 500 bucks tho. but i am not unhappy at all.
 
Great advice. I'm in the Seattle metro area. I'm going to look around for some shops to make the fitting. I'll post back what I find.

I recall taking the line out last summer. I remembered it was going to be a pain to put the line back in. The line is almost 6ft in lenght. This is the 3/8 main fuel line. I bent a line rather close to the original. I tried to place the original back in to see how it should fit. 3 hrs later I;m still working on this. argg. This line is going to be very difficult.
 
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