For those seeking hard to find fittings

[Gary Allan]

Here's a source that appears to have a good list of fittings. More than McMaster and Northern Tool. While most hydraulics fall into 1/4, 3/8, 1/2, 3/4 ..etc., these people have the 5/8 JIC (#10 AN) and other sizes. They also carry the O ring boss and face seals that (up until now - for me anyway) have been harder to find. For those of you who don't know (and just for reference), the O ring boss seal fittings are those used on the Amsoil BK mounts. Prices are very reasonable ..even when factoring in the S&H. The minimum order is $20 ..and it appears that their minimum S&H charge is about $9.

http://www.discounthydraulichose.com/

 

[Pete C.]

NAPA has access to the whole Weatherhead line of hose ends, hose and fittings. For o ring face seal fittings try your local Motion Industries, who by the way, are own by Genuine Parts along with NAPA.

 

[Gary Allan]

Cheap was another operative end to the post, Pete

I went to my local hydraulic shop ..and they didn't really take me over for a retail customer ..but the prices were about 4X what they were at this place. Notherntool is good ..but limited. Our local NAPA is variable in their stock on hand in those type of items (hose barbs and whatnot). They can get it ..and usually within a day ..but YMMV on the price. My NAPA isn't cheap.

 

[96 Cherokee]

Gary,
I was looking at the site you linked and I saw they had push lock fittings. That reminds me I need to find out if hoses can be removed from the push locks. I'm gong to be changing the bypass filter housing on my mower soon, and would like to know if I can pull the hoses off those push locks, or do they have to be cut off?

 

[Griz95]

I am pretty sure they have to be cut off. Be real careful not to damage the barbs when you do it. Gary will speck up if this info is wrong

Griz95

 

[Gary Allan]

I've never been able to pull them off of those weatherhead fittings. Heck, just getting them on ..you would think it gave me a hernia.

 

[burntkat]

every manufacturer I've seen in my recent research says they must be cut off.

I'm wondering-- are pushlocks suitable for use on hot transmission fluid? I'll be using them on a FFF and BPF combo off of a 700R4 trans, and I really want to make sure that they don't end up spurting my fluid everywhere...

 

[burntkat]

also, anyone know a good source of JIC tees?

 

[burntkat]

nevermind, next page had 'em..

 

[burntkat]

just ordered 20 feet of -6 hose, 20 pushlocks, a dozen each tube nuts and b nuts, 2 swivel female/male unions, 4 caps, and 2 -4F to -6M adapters. Shipped, came to $75. Would have been easily $300 worth of stuff at the local fitters' shop- they wanted $4.87/FT for the same hose!

Instead of dropping up and down from 5/16" hardline (stock lines), -6JIC, and -4JIC, decided to just build new hardlines using 3/8" stock from the LAPS (never did like the way the factory ran those lines, and besides, I never did replace that compression union I patched them together with years ago). This should give me better flow, not to mention make plumbing the system a heck of a lot easier- trying to figure out where to drop down to -4 for the BPF circuit, how many of what size tube nuts I needed and where the transitions would be was driving me batty. When all else fails, build it right- OVERbuild it!

Gary, folks

 

[Gary Allan]

If you can, take some pic's of the finished results. It's always good to see how another man builds his better mouse trap.

 

[burntkat]

will do. I was originally going to use 1/4NPTF tees at the trans and the FFF to plumb in the BPF, but then noticed that they posed a significant restriction in the lines.

I also have a temp sensor I mounted up years ago but never got around to wiring. While I have the trans out I will sneak a wire up the shifter hole and plug the sensor into the pressure port I mentioned before.