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Originally Posted by ebrobb
In the meanwhile, I went to 3 different shops that do hydraulic lines and they all have looked at the hose set like a monkey staring at a math problem and they tell me there is nothing that they can do. They want to make up an entire new hose with their own fittings and send me down the road, since they don't have the necessary fittings with a new crimp sleeve already attached there is nothing they can do. No one wants to even try to reuse the existing metal parts on either end.
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No quality shop is going to risk mixing hose ends , hose and ferrules for someone off the street, there is just too much liability. Hose assemblies are crimped to a diameter not pressure. Don't crimp enough and the hose will blow off, ( it might take some time until the hose shrinks.) If the crimp too heavy, you will cut the braid / crush the hose end.
Also, some hose ends are smooth and rely on the ferrule being locked to the hose end. With this type of system, if you use a non locking ferrule the hose will blow off. Since everything crimps at the same rate, tight enough on the hose might be too loose / tight on the lock.
When you worked at NAPA, everything was from the same system so crimp diameters were known.
11-07-2013, 04:51 PM
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