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Thanks! I got it off and did the hutch and harpoon mods this morning. Someone beat me to those filters though… they were gutted out of the mixing chamber. The foot umbrella was still in one piece too. Someone’s been into it at some point.
Huge thanks to @SkySkiJason for doing the write up in the tech folder. Straight forward instructions made it easy peasy.
My tank is full of fuel so I’m glad I didn’t drop the tank. When this is over I think I’ll be glad I pulled the bed off as the leaf springs will be easier to get to as well.
Be sure to triple check those tube unions. The ss tube Ford used is some heavy wall stuff. I couldn't get the brass unions, from my local hardware store, to squeeze the furrels on. I stripped 2 unions before I gave up and found some ss unions instead.
Be sure to triple check those tube unions. The ss tube Ford used is some heavy wall stuff. I couldn't get the brass unions, from my local hardware store, to squeeze the furrels on. I stripped 2 unions before I gave up and found some ss unions instead.
You would have to buy an expensive flaring tool and also would require sourcing the tube nuts and sleeves plus the braze on male fitting. When I bought the 37 degree flaring tool roughly 5 years ago I want to say it was around $180-200. Sure is a sweet flaring tool though. Oh hell they're $140 now, buy buy buy!!!
With the steel tubes in the fuel pickup being so thick-walled and hard, it is not possible to flare the tube ends in the conventional manner. I used Aeroquip Versil-Flare to create AN/JIC flares in the ends of the tubes. Versil-Flares are usually swaged into the ends of tubes but I opted to silver solder them on there for added vibration resistance. You will need one FCM2497 and one FCM2492 for each tube end.
The tool linked above will and did flare the factory tubing. When I moved my fuel pump inside the tank everything got reworked and converted to JIC. Just lube it and go slow. (Wait for it...)
Plus how are those different than a standard tube union in how they seal to the tube itself? You're still relying on a compression ferrule aren't you? The only thing I see different is the price and it puts a JIC in between the two compression connections. Doesn't that add a fair bit to the overall length of the connection as well as an additional potential leak point?
Plus how are those different than a standard tube union in how they seal to the tube itself? You're still relying on a compression ferrule aren't you? The only thing I see different is the price and it puts a JIC in between the two compression connections. Doesn't that add a fair bit to the overall length of the connection as well as an additional potential leak point?
That’s why I silver soldered them. It’s good that the flare tool you got can do it. My Weatherhead tool couldn’t grip the tube hard enough and simply pushed the tube out of the flaring tool. Also, AN/JIC seals on the flare while compression seals on the ferrule but you’re right that Versil-Flare in standard usage is also a compression seal.
