Hydraulic fitting - still searching - HELP!

[Ben Swann]

Its a standard all right.  
 
I'm just trying to determine which one. 
 
Most of the local shops around 'naptown don't deal with Metric Hydraulics and fuel
fittings.
 
When it comes to fabbing fuel lines and hydraulic lines in European cars, what seems
simple at first can really turn into a nighmare.
 
Ben

  _____  

From: Johnny B [mailto:pre95 at live.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 5:26 PM
To: benswann at verizon.net; quattro at audifans.com; 200q20v at audifans.com; urq;
s-car-list at audifans.com
Subject: RE: Hydraulic fitting - still searching - HELP!


Hey Ben,

Would anything standard suffice? McMaster-Carr offers a huge variety of high pressure
fittings, barbed connections, and all in various shapes, sizes, adapters & metals (some
with pressure ratings upwards of 2,000 PSI). Only problem I see here is everything
listed is standard, not metric. 

Their website is: http://www.mcmaster.com/# 

I simply searched "barbed fitting" and had good results. 

Also, I am sure the overall pressure would come in to play here, but 034 motorsports
should offer all the fittings that have anything to do with a fuel rail. Problem there
is it will likely be aluminum, and have a low peak pressure point. 

HTH!

Johnny

> From: benswann at verizon.net
> To: quattro at audifans.com; 200q20v at audifans.com; urq at audifans.com;
s-car-list at audifans.com
> Subject: Hydraulic fitting - still searching - HELP!
> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:44:18 -0400
> 
> 
> I am still trying to find suitable fittings that will let me fab up lines for the
> hydraulic pressure accumulator (bomb) to Power steering rack on '83 Ur Quattro.
> Temporarily put the fitting back in a clamped tight, but blew out first time when
> steering went lock to lock. I now have with extreme clamp tightness and loosened up on
> PS belt, but this is not gonna work as a permanent fix. I don't want to deal with any
> more OEM hoses - they seem to all end up leaking.
> 
> What is needed are fittings that have barbed end for positive permanent hold in
> hydraulic hose or can be swaged in by fabricator. My local fabricator won't source the
> fittings but will fab the hose if I find them..
> 
> The threads on the original fitting are 16mm diameter and fitting is a ball
> compression/flare fitting. The fittings for the hose are female, but would be good to
> source both. So what is this fitting called - 16mm metric compression fitting? JIC?
> ??
> 
> I checked and it is the same type as the ones used on EFI fuel rails - the fitting is
> the same odd size I was looking for when I needed a line for the Coupe Quattro fuel
> Return line.
> 
> Please advise me on this nomenclature if you know - I seen different versions of
metric
> fittings.
> 
> A source would be even better, but I figure if I know what they are specified as I can
> get from Parker or other manufacturer. Alternatively I could use an adaptor - like
> metric to AN, but still need to fabricate the hose assembly so less fitting
connections
> is better.
> 
> Ben
> _______________________________________________
> quattro mailing list
> http://www.audifans.com/mailman/listinfo/quattro
> http://www.audifans.com/kb/List_information