Steel tube from water pump to heater?
airbrushguy
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in HUDSON
Does anyone reproduce this pipe? I have a '49 Super Six 262 and would like to cleanup/organize the engine with one of these.
Can anyone help?
Thanks
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I just spent a lot of time on this. Contacted several manufactures and none would build it because of the tight turn coming out of the water pump -flared fitting. The tubing is 5/8".
Almost all I have taken off are pretty rusted on the heater end.
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abg, I'd check with a couple of folks who have a lot of parts and parts cars . . . Al Saffrahn in AZ or Doug Wildrick in Indiana.0
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I have a number of them if interested.0
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Lance, I am interested, let me know price and I'll send$$
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The one on my 53 was rusted out also. I made one out of copper plumbing pipe. I annealed the pipe with a propane torch and used a spring tubing bender to get the bends right and flared it with the original fitting. It has held up well over the last 8 years or so.Rich0
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The way to bend tubing like this is fill it with sand to prevent collapsing.
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Thanks Uncle Josh, sounds like a great idea!0
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FYI
Another method ive found to bend tubing without kinking is to lube and slide a snug fitting hose over the tubing (before flaring) then form carefully around a round object then remove the hose.
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They also have tightly wound springs for this purpose0
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FYI
Try Dave Kostansek in Oh @ 440 293 4079. I sent another person to Dave last wk and he had the fittings. Ive just adapted a pipe fitting into the water pump then ran another type of tubing into the heater hose. I seen a polished copper Tube formed on another Hudson that looked really nicely done.
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