I need to put my oil return fitting in my pan but the fitting is brass. How do I go about welding this thing on? Can I just use the same wire as I’m using for mild steel? Thanks for any input

 

Is your avatar under an MC-1C parachute? And if you are in Hawaii does that mean you are with Radio Recon? Just a guess here.

Anyway, I do not think brass can be welded to steel. You will probably have to braze it on. Don't worry, brazing is what holds the fins inside a torque converter to the steel housing, so it is plenty strong.

 

yep, it must be brazed. you cant weld brass to steel. if you got a steel bung then you could that on.

 

Or use JB weld . Thousands of miles on my car, thousands of miles on all my friends cars. Still going stong.

 

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yes its a little paratrooper, no i'm not with the recon, i just work at a hospital here (Hawaii) but i proudly have one of these on my right shoulder

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so do i just take a torch and some solder to it then?

does anyony have a link to brazing?
thanks everyone

 

why not just weld in a 1/2 cast iron pipe? thats what i do.

brazing works fine to.

i would never JB weld a fitting to my oil pan, if that **** breaks off from vibrations u got serious problems.. cause u skimped on a 5$ piece.

 

braze it. it's pretty easy.

 

Or weld a steel fitting onto the pan, then screw the brass fitting into that, as someone else said.

 

yeah i'm gonna go check out home depot tomorrow and see what i can find. on a sad note i'm only able to use two things in the oil line kit that i got for $85 and they only cost about $6 next time i get the urge to buy a "kit" i'll just hit myself in the nutz with a ball peen hammer. diy, trust noone!

 

ok i found this thing, its made in china so it must be good! i was thinking cutting off the excess and angling it a bit and useing it like a bung. its plated with some crap but it passes the magnet test, ill just grind that **** off where i'm going to weld it at. yah, or nah?

 

yup, thats mint. cut it, clean it and weld it in

 

thanks!

 

Get all of that galvanized plating off.It's something you don't want to breath when your welding.
Glenn

 

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now you tell me.......live and learn

 

just wondering but were did you pick that fitting up

 

That hosebarb is really small for a returnline.

 

Yeah, see if you can go up to a 1/2"-3/4" line.

 

it is 1/2". and home depot

 

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the THREAD is 1/2" NPT.. you can get the barbed part in bigger sizes.. ^^

i just brazed the brass peice right to the oil pan - it has to be VERY clean or wont braze worth ****. if the brazing looks like **** you can always slap some jbweld on it to clean it up... i've seen people use strait jbweld but that seems wrong for such an important part of the turbo.

 

Actually you CAN weld brass to steel or cast iorn

It is called Silicon Bronze filler rod and is done under the TIG welding precess or under the Oxy-Acetylene process.

I do this quite often modifiying my uncle's race differentials. I have to weld a sleeve on the cast iorn portion of the diff and it works rather well. It is also a VERY process to learn becasue Silicon Bronze is a HUGE pain in the *** to weld. I have found that it is easier to weld Magnesium or Titanium than it is to weld this stuff.

 

I will get a picture of the wrench that I welded a piece of brass to.

 

thanks for the input, i'll see if i can find a bigger barb!