I am TIRED of being HOSED

It seems that local shops like to charge outrageous prices for things First it was the machine work to thread a piece of metal. Now it is a pwoer steering hose needed custom made up. I paid $100.70 for this hose. I supplied the hard lines and the Oring fitting. I thoguht it would be simple. I wrote it up adn brought it to the shop. The first shop could add the hose but not the oring fitting. OK i goto the shop they suggest. They say they can do it. I give them all the measurements on paper. I just need 6 inches of hose to connect both hard lines and the oring fitting put on the one end. The shop ended up having to send it out to get it done since they only had AC hose nad it wouldnt hold up to the pressure. I didnt know it went out of shop till the guy called me and said it was done and it was going to be $118. I cringed, but realized it was custom but damn that hurts i was expecting about $60. For the $118 i was expecting them to have everything new. So i go to the shop to pay for the hose. I looked it ovr and said to the guy that the end with the O0ring looks to be lengthen from what i had . He said it wasnt. I sort of believe him and purchase it and go home. Once i got home i try to install it, nope no worky. too long as i suspected. I look at the way they set it up. The took my O-ring fitting and used a piece of tube that was with it and compression splices it to a male ot male adapter, and used the other new line and compression fitted it to the adapter. this added like 2 inches. I was expecting him to just use the threaded fitting and make a new rolled end in the new metal i provided. this would have ben the perfect size. Given i assumed they would do that as i told them, and unfortuanetly in my recourse tomorrow i do not have the paper with measurements that i provided, and i did not write down specifically that the length of that end should remain the same, but i told them i just wanted the threaded part on. Didnt realize they would jsut use that fitting and the old tube it was on. So right now i feel really ticked off and at the same time want to curl up in th efetal position sucking my thumb.

Soo tomorrow i will go in and try to rectify the situation. The thing i can have them do is shorten the front and get all those dang compression fittings all the way to the first bend, if i get them to do that i can reuse this peice. if they cant then i am not sure what to do.

I am thiknig bout getting a flare kit to make that fitting myself, but the ones in eastwood catalog only do up to 3/8 and that pressure side fitting is the next size larger. Is there a kit out there i can buy so i can make the flare for the oring fitting that is within a reasonable price. i could do the 200-maybe 300 for the kit but nothing over that, it is just not worth it.

I tried to get this done right, the old fitting that was resued was from a CJ7 hose that i previously cut the metal bottom off to use, and i cannot find an application with a long stretch of tubing that i could take and reuse.

Any other ideas of maybe making my own pressure line??

 

The last 2 times i had hoeses made (for th ecommando and the CJ) it ran me about $45. I still gave the bottom fitting because they didnt have any. This was at a hydrolic shop for trucks. This morning i stopped at the Godyear place that specializes in fittings and they didnt have the O-ring type. I am really getting bummed. This last palce was one of the last places for hoseses to be made. I am nto sure where they sent this one out to get made, i want to find out if they work for the general public and not companies. Is there any palce i can get these fittings and tubing to make my own? What size is the pressure line fitting? I know the return is 3/8 but what is th enext size up? Sucks because i had everything bent out perfectly the way i wanted it. And to think this place is a highly respected place locally. Tomorrow i go in to see what can be done for me.

 

OK trying to think straight. I am going to the shop tomorrow and going to ask them to remove the adapter junk and properly flare the end for the threaded fitting. This is wht i wnated in the first place. If not and they wont do a think, i tell them off and have to go get some AN fittings.

I was looking and found they make an oring fitting to #6 AN male end. So i can either remake the whoel hose, or i can get the Tubing to AN adapter. It looks like a crimp end.

My question is does anyone know what the pressure max is for the tubing fitting adapter?

 

the Napas here dont do any that i know of. the one NAPA that used to do inhouse stuff doesnt anymore

 

only the gear boxis the o ring style. the pump is the flare style. that fortunately is not the problem. main issue is the clearance in the front with the hose hitting the grill.

 

Nope no "S" the length they added that oring end and all those compression fittings and adapter that it added length there and no way to shorten that by bending. That is the critical part, it has to go up a certain amount then bend 90 to clear the grill bottom. i hoguht bout trimming it, but just do not want to, if it was done right it would have cleared.

I hear ya, it is getting ridiculous around here for things.

 

I hear ya on how much things cost... and it's just gonna get worse

$100 is one thing... but $100 and WRONG is something else!!
Don't cut the grille. One shop or the other needs to make this right.
Take no prisoners.

 

I hate to hear this...have noticed lately when we've had work done here locally that the bill was always a few bucks less than the quote. I don't know if that was by design or not, but it was nice to go in all prepared for a number then walk out paying less.

I can't count the number of times I've eaten work to stay within the quote - I figure in most cases if I go over it's my own dang fault and should quote better next time. Hoping that the long-term benefits outweigh the immediate....

 

Well i went to the shop this morning and talekd to them. A guy took the hose went back adn actually brazed the piecs together to shotern it up. They cant make a Oring flare for some reason. Gonna try it out tonight, if it works great. if not i am done with them and will spend the $50 more for the high pressure hose AN ends and adapters and make it myself. I was impressed thoguh the oen guy went and actually brazed it all together, so he did try. I jsut wish they wouldhave said they cannot make those falres, and then i would have gone elsewhere.

 

Hoser

Hydraulic Supply Co
(239) 274-9229
(800) 507-9651
10994 Metro Pkwy # 5
Fort Myers, FL 33912
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