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Where do I find this fuel fitting?
- Thread starter Theflightrisk
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That looks like the fitting off of the end of a flex hose.
How was it being used?
How was it being used?
Theflightrisk
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The typical standard practice is that a fitting installation to a piece of flex hose is a one time thing.
Many of the fittings are reusable if installing them on a new piece of hose, but installing a new fitting on a previously used piece of hose is generally considered a bad idea.
At this point, the best plan would be to get a new hose made.
A fairly reliable fix if you hadn’t taken the fitting end off of the hose, would have been to use a Dell seal between the flared fitting and the hose end.
It is a thin, soft aluminum form fitted seal that gets compressed when the nut on the hose end is fully torqued, and is a pretty reliable solution for fittings that are being problematic.
If you removed the hose end because the leak was located between the hose fitting and the hose, then I think having this problem was a good thing. Because a properly made hose should never leak at that point and probably needed to be changed.
Many of the fittings are reusable if installing them on a new piece of hose, but installing a new fitting on a previously used piece of hose is generally considered a bad idea.
At this point, the best plan would be to get a new hose made.
A fairly reliable fix if you hadn’t taken the fitting end off of the hose, would have been to use a Dell seal between the flared fitting and the hose end.
It is a thin, soft aluminum form fitted seal that gets compressed when the nut on the hose end is fully torqued, and is a pretty reliable solution for fittings that are being problematic.
If you removed the hose end because the leak was located between the hose fitting and the hose, then I think having this problem was a good thing. Because a properly made hose should never leak at that point and probably needed to be changed.
