brettportzer
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- OWNER - I own a Hatteras Yacht
- Hatteras Model
- 43' DOUBLE CABIN (1970 - 1984)
So, again, I live in a boating desert... Which is funny since the start of the Erie Canal is here, but anyway...
Latest project is replacing my fuel hoses... I preemptively decided that nobody local would have that blue USCG fuel hose, so I went looking online and it turns out that Seaboard Marine has a pretty nice online custom hydraulic hose ordering thing.
I ordered one as a test, and to see how much more flexible new ones might be, etc. It is a pretty nice hose.
Anyway, so trying to measure everything up and not place a $1200 custom fuel hose order in error I ended up going down the rabbit hole a bit about hoses and fittings and stuff, and long story short, everything in my setup is 45 degree (SAE) flare, while my racor fittings are 37 degree (JIC).
Anything you read says you have to match those two, and half of the people you talk to would suggest that they need to match...
But, Seaboard Marine says they are interchangeable (except for a couple instances, -6 for example with different threading) and that the angle doesn't matter.
I wasn't sure about that, and my local hose shop (who doesn't have the marine hose...) agrees that it doesn't matter.
I don't know what to think. I have it in writing from Seaboard that it doesn't matter... but that won't do me any good.
Considering just going to hose barb and ordering some of the right hose and clamping it on?
Any thoughts?
Thanks!
Latest project is replacing my fuel hoses... I preemptively decided that nobody local would have that blue USCG fuel hose, so I went looking online and it turns out that Seaboard Marine has a pretty nice online custom hydraulic hose ordering thing.
I ordered one as a test, and to see how much more flexible new ones might be, etc. It is a pretty nice hose.
Anyway, so trying to measure everything up and not place a $1200 custom fuel hose order in error I ended up going down the rabbit hole a bit about hoses and fittings and stuff, and long story short, everything in my setup is 45 degree (SAE) flare, while my racor fittings are 37 degree (JIC).
Anything you read says you have to match those two, and half of the people you talk to would suggest that they need to match...
But, Seaboard Marine says they are interchangeable (except for a couple instances, -6 for example with different threading) and that the angle doesn't matter.
I wasn't sure about that, and my local hose shop (who doesn't have the marine hose...) agrees that it doesn't matter.
I don't know what to think. I have it in writing from Seaboard that it doesn't matter... but that won't do me any good.
Considering just going to hose barb and ordering some of the right hose and clamping it on?
Any thoughts?
Thanks!