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Well last weekend I was trying to prep for the arrival of my MK48 cab by repositioning all the motorpool. I parked the wrecker next to the 931. While I had it there I decided to play with the hydraulics a bit and was rewarded with a blown boom hose. $109.31 for a hose made at the local parts store, and I thought I was in business. Well until I crossthreaded my new hose due to it being to long. $54.36 later, I had another end to replace the damaged one and a new steel tee fitting for the one I damaged. I really started inspecting every inch of hose on the wrecker and found the second line on that same side looks questionable (rusted/splitting fitting). Also a hose at the rear of the boom looks like it's starting to separate from the crimp section when the boom is at full lift. There's another main hose (about 7ft long) that is missing a small section of the outer jacket exposing the steel braided inside.
So my question is this. Rather than spending mega bucks for custom hoses. Does anyone know of a cheap source of premade hyd hoses? It appears that most of these hoses are 1" npt male ends with a few -16's here and there. I haven't found any oddball fittings yet.
So my question is this. Rather than spending mega bucks for custom hoses. Does anyone know of a cheap source of premade hyd hoses? It appears that most of these hoses are 1" npt male ends with a few -16's here and there. I haven't found any oddball fittings yet.