Question about power steering hose

Not sure without seeing it, but if fatigue cracked it, flaring the remaining part is asking for trouble...but stuff like that, if it's ridiculously expensive for the replacement part, you can take it to a hydraulic supply or farm implement store and have it custom made, they have the fittings and ferrules and can make damn near anything dirt cheap...and usually better quality than OE.

Unless this hose has become obsolete it will not cost much at all to buy an entire hose. I would have checked price/availability but the engine size was not included in the post.

Don

Duh? Hello? Hydraulics shop. That's what they deal in...and there is nothing unique about P/S fittings...they are standard hydraulic parts....sheesh...:rofl:

BTW, those same places can build you an A/C hose MUCH cheaper than an OE replacement from a parts store also....

Worked for years and years in garages and parts stores myself (kid? I wish:lol: )...if we didn't stock it or it wasn't available, and the account needed it NOW, guess where we went and had it made?

Maybe you didn't have access to the level of high-volume and wide range of suppliers we did...I could have a P/S or A/C hose made at any of half a dozen different suppliers locally..one specialized in all things hydraulic, refigeration and hot/caustic fluid transfer...never seen them stumped for a fitting or a shape in 24 years of dealing with them...and like I said, usually at a fraction of the cost of an OE type part...especially on something as old as what he's working on, I see no problem.