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Originally Posted by Dieselnut
Thanks for the reply.
After seeing the price I decided to try making it myself so I bought a length of hydraulic hose and using the original fittings off of the old hose, put it together and now have it working perfectly! I really like the nice reusable fittings Mercedes used.
Cost me $9.00 for the entire fix. It would have cost about $137.00 if I had bought a hose!
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Keep and eye on it. The hydraulic hoses usually operate at a pretty high pressure. So I don't know if your "job" will hold.
As I said a hydraulic hose shop can usually do it for a bout $30 and they have the correct tools.
a manual one
http://www.ackits.com/merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=AMA&Product_Code=71550
A video of the hydraulic tool.
http://www.mastercool.com/video/71500%20Hydra%20crimp%20video.wmv
Dave
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