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TimInNova - I’ve emailed him for a price. Seems like a good solution.
I found an Aussie online replacing a portion with rubber and am a little tempered to try and replace with rubber hoses. Let’s face it the truck just doesn’t have that much life left. If that could work for a while I’d be tempted. Rad end looks easy enough, not sure about the transmission end.
Any idea about the pressure involved?
$408 is way overpriced in my opinion for some AN lines and some fittings though.
Over in the LS swaps, it is pretty common to redo the lines with AN and the metric fittings that thread straight into the transmission, then use a generic transmission cooler of your choice or make fittings that go from AN to the factory cooler.
Yeah. Little pricey to get some lines 175 km.
What I really like is that the “duty and taxes” range from $60 to $137. Because you pay twice as much in taxes depending on the shipper??!?
Go with whowa004's fix. Can't cost more than $50 and can be done in situ, which is way easier the R&R'ing the entire line(s). Go see one of those hydraulic shops, I found 3 in Toronto on the googler, they'll fix you up.
Or, blow north of $500 for something you really don't need.
AN is a type of fitting, very easy to mess up the first time using them as they need very little torque...my brother and I ruined a full stainless with AN fittings fuel line on a car we built as teenagers by over torquing them...but yea $400+ is asinine for the trailhead lines imo. A local shop should have zero issue rebuilding them if you need more than the quick disconnect fittings I linked earlier.
will need to sand down the cooler fittings slightly for the swagelok fittings to slide on but it's quick and easy as the coolers are aluminum.
Seems like a great idea, but they are unavailable to purchase. The Swagelok site says it has Stainless Steel versions, but won't give you a price without a business link. Anybody got a hookup?
If you do use stainless, make sure you use some anti-seize on the threads. I doubt that the issue was over torquing. I’m an aircraft mechanic and we frequently use stainless AN (or more commonly MS) fittings. Unlubed stainless will gall up and seize.
