[urq] Hydraulic fitting - still searching - HELP!

[Johnny B]

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
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> 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
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