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07-11-2023, 01:38 PM | #41 |
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Re: Fuel line ferrule
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07-12-2023, 11:09 PM | #42 | |
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07-13-2023, 09:36 AM | #43 |
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Re: Fuel line ferrule
At times I've used cotton string for a packing. Wrap 3 or 4 turns around the line, between the nut and the ferrule. YMMV.
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In a former life one of my tasks was to teach young scientists how to properly assemble specialty gas systems using SwageLok fittings, and getting the ferrule properly fitted and assembled on the tubing is critical. One way to mess that up is to have too much tubing extending from the front of the ferrule so that there is insufficient room for the tubing to move once the crush onto the tubing begins. That will manifest itself during reassembly as “running out of threads”. Having too little tubing is another way to mess up the crush as the front of the ferrule won’t have any tubing to bite into. Sort of a Goldilocks thing. Both of these scenarios assume that there is a proper match between the nut (on the tubing) and what you are installing into - sediment bowl, carburetor, manifold, whatever. An extra thick ferrule is one possible solution. Sorry for the confusion.
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