Where to buy BPST fitting for oil feed?
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Where to buy BPST fitting for oil feed?
OK I'm convinced my oil feed/pressure sender tee is leaking like a sieve even though I can't see up there very well, there's oil all the hell over the place dripping onto my test pipe and garage floor. I'd like to do the endyn-style "run a flexible line to the firewall and put your tee there" but now that I'm certain the location is not a NPT fitting, I want to make sure I do it right... where am I going to find metric tapered pipe fittings? Has anyone come across a good way to get the job done?
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Re: Where to buy BPST fitting for oil feed? (dbman96)
home depot!!! any industrial supply warehouse, fitters, plumbers store etc.
Do i know where you live or sumpin? nynex directory dude, make some calls
OK and where do I find THAT? 
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Re: Where to buy BPST fitting for oil feed? (rtype11)
Autometer
Part #: 2269
1/8" NPT to 1/8" BSPT
http://www.autometer.com/hp/2001_cat...sories/87.html
It's a male 1/8" bspt adapter that you screw into your oil port. The you have a 1/8" NPT port that you can then use.
That or you can just get a 1/8" NPT tap and tap out the port.
Part #: 2269
1/8" NPT to 1/8" BSPT
http://www.autometer.com/hp/2001_cat...sories/87.html
It's a male 1/8" bspt adapter that you screw into your oil port. The you have a 1/8" NPT port that you can then use.
That or you can just get a 1/8" NPT tap and tap out the port.
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Re: Where to buy BPST fitting for oil feed? (DirtyLude)
That or you can just get a 1/8" NPT tap and tap out the port.
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Re: Where to buy BPST fitting for oil feed? (DirtyLude)
you can get that autometer adapter, or you can get one from a comany called Sunpro. they're usually sold in a pack with a bunch of other adapters (like 6 different 1/8" npt adapters) at places like Pep Boys or Autozone etc..
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Re: Where to buy BPST fitting for oil feed? (dbman96)
You will also need the adapter that goes the other way: 1/8" NPT (male) to 1/8" BSPT (female).
I may still have an extra one. I ordered a few from Maryland Metrics a while back and have sold some. They had a $10 minimum purchase so I got 3 or 4.
e-mail me if you want one, I'll look for it.
I may still have an extra one. I ordered a few from Maryland Metrics a while back and have sold some. They had a $10 minimum purchase so I got 3 or 4.
e-mail me if you want one, I'll look for it.
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Re: Where to buy BPST fitting for oil feed?
I did the endyn style tee with a pig tail line from the block to the firewall. Using all earls fittings and ss auto flex hose, it cost me $73 shipped.
2 - 1/4 tp -4 adapters
1 - straight -4 hose end
1 - 90deg -4 hose end
3ft of auto flex ss hose
Sort of pricey, but after breaking 2 tee's off in the block in a week and losing $50 worth of sythetic oil, I coughed up the money. I could have done it cheaper, but I was in one of those fugg it moods.
2 - 1/4 tp -4 adapters
1 - straight -4 hose end
1 - 90deg -4 hose end
3ft of auto flex ss hose
Sort of pricey, but after breaking 2 tee's off in the block in a week and losing $50 worth of sythetic oil, I coughed up the money. I could have done it cheaper, but I was in one of those fugg it moods.
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Re: Where to buy BPST fitting for oil feed? (turbotec)
I heard that the 1/8 BPST will thread right into the 1/8 NPT with a little teflon tape and seal ok. is this true??
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Re: Where to buy BPST fitting for oil feed? (DeeJay)
I heard that the 1/8 BPST will thread right into the 1/8 NPT with a little teflon tape and seal ok. is this true??
Yes it works. I'm getting my oil from a port on the head that is 1/8 bspt. I put some teflon on it and it screwed in about 5 threads before it got tight, no leaks.
Yes it works. I'm getting my oil from a port on the head that is 1/8 bspt. I put some teflon on it and it screwed in about 5 threads before it got tight, no leaks.
I did this too, and mine threaded the entire way in. I used yellow teflon (it said gas, oil, and something else on it), and I have no leaks.
The autozone sunpro fittings are where it's at. The people at the counter didn't know what they were when I gave them the number. They are out with the perfomance products (chrome air fileter covers, etc). It's a little bag with a bunch of them in there.
I ran the sunpro fitting in the sending unit opening, then a 1/8 NPT fitting for 1/8 nylon tube, small piece of tube, another 1/8NPT male fitting for the nylon in to a NPT T, then ran the sending unit and turbo feed off of the T. It's impossible to write this without being confusing.
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Re: Where to buy BPST fitting for oil feed? (therealciviczc)
I heard that the 1/8 BPST will thread right into the 1/8 NPT with a little teflon tape and seal ok. is this true??
Yes it works. I'm getting my oil from a port on the head that is 1/8 bspt. I put some teflon on it and it screwed in about 5 threads before it got tight, no leaks.
I did this too, and mine threaded the entire way in. I used yellow teflon (it said gas, oil, and something else on it), and I have no leaks.
The autozone sunpro fittings are where it's at. The people at the counter didn't know what they were when I gave them the number. They are out with the perfomance products (chrome air fileter covers, etc). It's a little bag with a bunch of them in there.
I ran the sunpro fitting in the sending unit opening, then a 1/8 NPT fitting for 1/8 nylon tube, small piece of tube, another 1/8NPT male fitting for the nylon in to a NPT T, then ran the sending unit and turbo feed off of the T. It's impossible to write this without being confusing.
Yes it works. I'm getting my oil from a port on the head that is 1/8 bspt. I put some teflon on it and it screwed in about 5 threads before it got tight, no leaks.
I did this too, and mine threaded the entire way in. I used yellow teflon (it said gas, oil, and something else on it), and I have no leaks.
The autozone sunpro fittings are where it's at. The people at the counter didn't know what they were when I gave them the number. They are out with the perfomance products (chrome air fileter covers, etc). It's a little bag with a bunch of them in there.
I ran the sunpro fitting in the sending unit opening, then a 1/8 NPT fitting for 1/8 nylon tube, small piece of tube, another 1/8NPT male fitting for the nylon in to a NPT T, then ran the sending unit and turbo feed off of the T. It's impossible to write this without being confusing.
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Re: Where to buy BPST fitting for oil feed? (TypeC)
well what i am doing, is putting a male union which is 1/8 BPST (male on both sides) into the block, so it will go in without any problems, then onto that, I am going to put a tee on it. but the BPST tee's cost like $20 cause the local supplier had to order it. I heard that my BPST union will thread into my NPT tee ok. with the teflon, it will make up for the discrepencys. is that true??
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Re: Where to buy BPST fitting for oil feed? (turbotec)
I think it makes more sense to get one of those Autozone BPST-NPT adapters and then you can use cheap parts with no worries.
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Re: Where to buy BPST fitting for oil feed? (therealciviczc)
Yeah my Sunpro fitting broke and left the male threaded end in my block. Took a while to get it back out. Brass SUCKS, too weak.
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Re: Where to buy BPST fitting for oil feed? (mplex2000)
how many other people have had the sunpro fittings break off?? I just went and bought them this afternoon. dont want them to break off in the block!! if anything I will mount the "T" to the firewall!!!
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Re: Where to buy BPST fitting for oil feed? (turbotec)
I think that's the point - if you're using any adapters you MUST use a flexible hose to the Tee or else you've got all that weight cantilevered and vibrating on a work-hardened brass fitting. It's just ASKING to fall off.
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Re: Where to buy BPST fitting for oil feed? (dbman96)
Right, brass will break off if it has a heavy T, oil pressure sending unit, and oil feed line suspended 3 inches away from it. You need to do the flex hose thing.
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Re: Where to buy BPST fitting for oil feed? (therealciviczc)
We carry the LS/VTEC - B20/VTEC hardware kits now - $75 with all earls fittings
http://www.c-speedracing.com/frame.html
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