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Oil Cooler Lines - AGAIN!
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1984 300D Turbo - 4-speed manual conversion, mid-level resto 1983 300D - parts car 1979 300TD Auto - Parts car. 1985 300D Auto - Wrecked/Parts. ========================= "If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there". Lewis Carrol |
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I seem to recall an old post where someone wrote about making up flexible hydraulic hoses to replace the originals. Can you say more about why the person you went to couldn't do it?
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1977 300d 70k--sold 08 1985 300TD 185k+ 1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03 1985 409d 65k--sold 06 1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car 1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11 1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper 1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4 1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13 |
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The shop had 1/2" and 5/8" fittings for crimping hydraulic lines to steel tubing, but neither would work for 15mm (one too small and one too big). They have really sturdy sst hose clamps (360 deg clamps like the orig merc clamps on the vac lines and such - I'll post pics tomorrow) that should do fine on the barbed ends.
This way also leaves me free to take it apart to add another cooler inline if I want or to easily blow out all the oil.
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1984 300D Turbo - 4-speed manual conversion, mid-level resto 1983 300D - parts car 1979 300TD Auto - Parts car. 1985 300D Auto - Wrecked/Parts. ========================= "If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there". Lewis Carrol |
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Cont'd.....
The line is cut off so that there's enough straight length to run the fitting onto it: Here's mods to the fitting so the 15mm oil line will fit: Fitting is inserted, then the line is flared to keep solder from flowing through to the threads: Fitting is then silver soldered to the line: You can see that the solder flows all the way into the fitting and up to the end of the line: Here's the finished "filter" ends of the lines, ready for install (good thing snow's coming tomorrow, eh?):
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1984 300D Turbo - 4-speed manual conversion, mid-level resto 1983 300D - parts car 1979 300TD Auto - Parts car. 1985 300D Auto - Wrecked/Parts. ========================= "If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there". Lewis Carrol |
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Are you implying that hydraulic shops don't have the correct fittings to make up a hose which would attach to the fittings on an MB? Is that why you used the existing fittings? Surely there must be a lot of Asian backhoes and such in the country that require metric hoses??
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1977 300d 70k--sold 08 1985 300TD 185k+ 1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03 1985 409d 65k--sold 06 1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car 1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11 1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper 1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4 1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13 |
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