And the Edelbrock pump doesn't have its lower half assembled to the upper half using screws so that the lower section can be unscrewed and rotated to gain fitting clearance? Interesting. Be careful with your choice of fittings. There are two systems out there; JIC and A-N. JIC was the system we used on hydraulics, motors and pumps and reservoirs when I worked in a fabrication shop.
A-N is the short speak term for Army-Navy and they are the fitting of choice and design for the military.
Two fundamental differences. Pitch of the thread and the angle of the seat. Both systems offer/supply adapters that are made with pipe thread on one end and your choice of tapered end on the other male x male. if you have a port on the pump that is threaded in female NPT or pipe thread and you want to just screw the adapter in and move on to the hose portion of the program.
However, What your pump may have for inlet/return ports is something called "female invert flare" meaning that down at the bottom of the port there is a shoulder against which a flare nut fitting would seat a flared section of tube. Flare nut thread is +/- the same as male brake line fitting thread. As I recall, there is a 90 degree by flare male connection available from the Parker Hannifin or Fairview catalogues that can be attached to a hose/fuel line. There is also something called a "Barb-sert" which has the 90 degree by flare connector at the one end and the other is a tube end with a series of ridges on it. Assembly is stuffing the ribbed end into the correct ID rubber fuel line until the hose bottoms against the cute yellow plastic collar and adding a gear clamp.
Oh, yeah, if you do go A-N, you will need an A-N specific flaring tool as the one in your brake line kit does brake flares which are a total different angle. And don't forget to put the nut and re-enforcing ferrule on first, or you get to cut your brand new perfectly formed flare end off and do it all over again.
Nick
A-N is the short speak term for Army-Navy and they are the fitting of choice and design for the military.
Two fundamental differences. Pitch of the thread and the angle of the seat. Both systems offer/supply adapters that are made with pipe thread on one end and your choice of tapered end on the other male x male. if you have a port on the pump that is threaded in female NPT or pipe thread and you want to just screw the adapter in and move on to the hose portion of the program.
However, What your pump may have for inlet/return ports is something called "female invert flare" meaning that down at the bottom of the port there is a shoulder against which a flare nut fitting would seat a flared section of tube. Flare nut thread is +/- the same as male brake line fitting thread. As I recall, there is a 90 degree by flare male connection available from the Parker Hannifin or Fairview catalogues that can be attached to a hose/fuel line. There is also something called a "Barb-sert" which has the 90 degree by flare connector at the one end and the other is a tube end with a series of ridges on it. Assembly is stuffing the ribbed end into the correct ID rubber fuel line until the hose bottoms against the cute yellow plastic collar and adding a gear clamp.
Oh, yeah, if you do go A-N, you will need an A-N specific flaring tool as the one in your brake line kit does brake flares which are a total different angle. And don't forget to put the nut and re-enforcing ferrule on first, or you get to cut your brand new perfectly formed flare end off and do it all over again.
Nick
