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1993-VG30E-GXE · 07-04-2009, 01:37 AM

Went to the store and bought the SAE 45 flare tool kit and the line bender tool. There is a tool to do the bulge but it's over 900 bucks.

The bulge i'm talking about is not the bulge in Pmors photo. It's the 2 bulges found on your fuel filter, as well as end of injector rail send & receive pipe. The purpose of the bulge I beleive is to position the fuel injector clamp next to it, to give an even better seal or to possibly prevent the hose from slipping off the pipe (once the clamp is tightened down it may be difficult to pull hose off)if it were to move.

I don't think i'm going to follow the advice of one of my automotive buddy, he claims just cut the pipe and use the injector clamp and forget about the bulge. Guy at the store recommended use your OEM bulges and cut the pipe back from that maybe a foot, then use unions or something to join the new pipe. I personally don't like this idea because your adding un-necessary joints...but we'll see.

Here's the example of the tool. And that is one damn expensive tool just to make a bulge, out of my budget. ...............Pmor, the makeshift way is impossible with pipe this tiny inner diameter - sure with a huge pipe like the one in your photo, but imagine trying to do that within a fuel pipe.

www.vansantent.com/Catalog/2009/Bead_Form.pdf

07-04-2009, 01:37 AM	#9
1993-VG30E-GXE Senior Member Maxima Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Ontario, Canada iTrader: (0) Posts: 1,055	Went to the store and bought the SAE 45 flare tool kit and the line bender tool. There is a tool to do the bulge but it's over 900 bucks. The bulge i'm talking about is not the bulge in Pmors photo. It's the 2 bulges found on your fuel filter, as well as end of injector rail send & receive pipe. The purpose of the bulge I beleive is to position the fuel injector clamp next to it, to give an even better seal or to possibly prevent the hose from slipping off the pipe (once the clamp is tightened down it may be difficult to pull hose off)if it were to move. I don't think i'm going to follow the advice of one of my automotive buddy, he claims just cut the pipe and use the injector clamp and forget about the bulge. Guy at the store recommended use your OEM bulges and cut the pipe back from that maybe a foot, then use unions or something to join the new pipe. I personally don't like this idea because your adding un-necessary joints...but we'll see. Here's the example of the tool. And that is one damn expensive tool just to make a bulge, out of my budget. ...............Pmor, the makeshift way is impossible with pipe this tiny inner diameter - sure with a huge pipe like the one in your photo, but imagine trying to do that within a fuel pipe. www.vansantent.com/Catalog/2009/Bead_Form.pdf Last edited by 1993-VG30E-GXE; 07-04-2009 at 01:52 AM.