DIY Pop Tester
 

In doing the research to build my pop tester, I found that there are quite a few good how to threads to turn a cheap 2 ton bottle jack into a nice pop tester. However it's always a challenge to get from a NPT fitting to the MB hard line fitting. These are obviously not a standard, off the shelf item, and can be very hard to find. When I built mine, I fabricated a connector that goes directly from 1/4NPT to the MB hard line, like this

http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/...1&d=1350195083

http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/...1&d=1350195083

I made up a bunch of these fittings today and have them for sale at $20 including shipping. If you're interested, please PM me.

Here are a couple of good links for building a DIY Pop Tester

http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/general-information/224334-how-build-diesel-injector-pop-tester.html
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/diesel-discussion/272176-another-homemade-pop-tester.html


And of course whunter's summary of pop tester issues

http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/2134929-post23.html




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Ingenious way of coping with the metric system!

Surprisingly Dutch (domestic) plumbing systems use a combination of imperial and metric fittings - I've had to come up with many a fix - though here they usually have an off the self solution. If you are not careful you can end up with connector on connector on connector...