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I spent a ridiculous amount of time searching out fittings and hoses that looked factory for the radiator surge tank. I was trying to find that magic fitting that would give me a 90° swivel with an 3/8" NPT male or 1/4" NPT male and fit a 3/16" or 5/16" hose. I couldn't find such a fitting that had a matching 45° SAE inverted flare fitting in the same fitting family/series and also from a manufacturer that made textile braided hose for those fittings. I found a close match for fittings from Goodyear / Continental and after some more searching I was able to track down some textile braided mil-spec hose also made by Continental to match the fittings!
This hose, which is listed as medium pressure hydraulic hose, was hard to get and Deidra (pronounced Dee-dra) is the lady to talk to at Industrial Hose & Hydraulics Inc. out of Pompano Beach, Florida. She had to work all sorts of angles to get me the small qty I needed but she's the best and I got my hose sent from Florida up here to Washington![Beaming face with smiling eyes :grin: 😁](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f601.png)
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So far, I've only attached these field-serviceable fittings on the surge tank side and I will trim down the hose to size before attaching the water manifold and radiator ends.
From the surge tank the big hose will consist of Eaton 2252-6-6S 3/8" NPT 90° swivel male to 3/8" NPT female -> straight Goodyear FG-NPM-06-06 3/8" NPT male -> Continental MIL-H-13444-III-6 5/16" mildew resistant, textile braided, medium pressure hydraulic hose -> Goodyear FG-SFFX-0606 SAE 45° inverted flare straight swivel. The smaller 3/16" hose will be the same except with the number 4 in place of 6 in the part numbers.
Update: I now have the surge tank hoses cut to length and the straight swivel SAE 45° inverted flare fittings have been installed.
![20210714_165937.jpg 20210714_165937.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/594/594943-fa4cf3fbe8955fccbbd9f1c5261b0cb3.jpg)
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This hose, which is listed as medium pressure hydraulic hose, was hard to get and Deidra (pronounced Dee-dra) is the lady to talk to at Industrial Hose & Hydraulics Inc. out of Pompano Beach, Florida. She had to work all sorts of angles to get me the small qty I needed but she's the best and I got my hose sent from Florida up here to Washington
![Beaming face with smiling eyes :grin: 😁](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f601.png)
![20210603_194337.jpg 20210603_194337.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/594/594252-1b2e65c8e6c523b218f15a18a78bc683.jpg)
![20210704_144549.jpg 20210704_144549.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/594/594253-0908db8f5c7a761042276c9b080743d4.jpg)
![20210704_143343.jpg 20210704_143343.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/594/594254-31b0bd1e15cd7ca757ed31526907a2a4.jpg)
![20210704_143624.jpg 20210704_143624.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/594/594255-b5e339d54fe24d4902b68f9a66327f84.jpg)
![20210704_144708.jpg 20210704_144708.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/594/594256-c48f474f1104ec695ff15652f92414ee.jpg)
![20210704_145333.jpg 20210704_145333.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/594/594257-51f0195fa157f29c8205acea498c3a60.jpg)
So far, I've only attached these field-serviceable fittings on the surge tank side and I will trim down the hose to size before attaching the water manifold and radiator ends.
From the surge tank the big hose will consist of Eaton 2252-6-6S 3/8" NPT 90° swivel male to 3/8" NPT female -> straight Goodyear FG-NPM-06-06 3/8" NPT male -> Continental MIL-H-13444-III-6 5/16" mildew resistant, textile braided, medium pressure hydraulic hose -> Goodyear FG-SFFX-0606 SAE 45° inverted flare straight swivel. The smaller 3/16" hose will be the same except with the number 4 in place of 6 in the part numbers.
Update: I now have the surge tank hoses cut to length and the straight swivel SAE 45° inverted flare fittings have been installed.
![20210714_165937.jpg 20210714_165937.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/594/594943-fa4cf3fbe8955fccbbd9f1c5261b0cb3.jpg)
![20210714_170025.jpg 20210714_170025.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/594/594944-fb58a7588ab3125bb2cdfaf312391c19.jpg)
![20210714_170044.jpg 20210714_170044.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/594/594945-7eb6ca695ef0d4fe68d80cee78bdff14.jpg)
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