I can't find the right brake fitting...help.

OK. Here is what I have.. I have 3/8 x24 IFF female fitting on the end of my brake hose that I need to adapt to a 1/8 NPT female bulkhead fitting coming through my frame.
I can find adapters to change the bulkhead fitting from the 1/8 NPT to a -3AN male or fittings to change it to a 3/8 24 female.
I can find adapters to change the brake hose fitting to a -3AN male fitting but nothing else.
I can't find a union that will couple the two male -3AN fittings together if I change to those.
I can't find an adapter to couple the 3/8 female hose with the 1/8NPT
female together.
I see the through the frame bulkheads with 1/8 NPT female on one end and -3AN male on the other end sold in many places. So what do people use to connect the -3AN male end to their 3/8IFF brake hoses?
I don't see why this should be so difficult. Seems like there are fittings for everything but this. I need the opposite of most adapters.
I would appreciate any ideas because I can't locate what I need.
I may have to just do away with the bulkhead through the frame and connect the brake line to the hose the old fashioned way with a tab under the frame but I don't want to.

 

look at mc master carr site..........

 

Change hoses, find one with the pipe thread on the end you need.

Fragola has braided stainless hoses with black covers on for all sorts of applications. They will even build you custom hoses.

http://fragolaperformancesystems.com/pptfehose***emblnocover/ptfehose***emblnocover.html

 

I'll look In my do***ents to find the card off of the brake unions I got. I got all of my weird ***ed fittings, hoses and unions from a hole in the wall roundy round dirt track race Shop....they had an entire wall of every combination known to man (so I thought). It was a name brand as well....I'll edit the thread when I find it.

 

Thanks, I checked there. You would think if they don't carry it, then it does not exist. But surely, some one else has run into this before, its just a standard brake hose that I want to adapt to go through a bulkhead. Wish I had a lathe, I would make a couple.

 

Did you look at a local retailer that carries Earls Performance Plumbing. They help me out during my last brake upgrade.

Rich

 

You have a problem there as i don't see any adaptors that will go from 1/8npt (male) to 3/16 IFF (male), the 1/8npt to 3/16IFF (male) is a very common fitting but i don't see a male coupling to screw 2 female 3/16IFF together. Looks like you will need to transition to -AN stuff, with a -3AN 1/8npt male adaptor, a length of hose and and adaptor to connect to your wheel cyl/caliper. I work with this stuff all the time and if you need help shoot me a pm with the brake end sizing and hose length and i'll convert them into russel or aeroquip numbers so's you can order the right stuff the first time ok?

 

Well, I thought I could convert to -AN stuff. And I could if I could find a union to connect two AN males together. See, this is why I am not gay, things just don't work out well trying to connect two males or two females together....
I have already bought new hoses so I am going to try to make this work with adapters if I can.

 

Try a NAPA store. They handle Weatherhead fittngs and you should be able to find one.

 

I think I may have found what I need from Earls. The places I looked didn't have all of their products. It looks like Summit might have the adapter from Earls. Thanks for the tip.

 

Make some.



These converted something like a 7/16" fine banjo to a conventional 3/16" inverted flare for a rear-disc conversion. 304 stainless, took me about two hours.

All you need is about $10,000 in machine tooling and a few years of experience.

Doc.

 

I feel your pain there 56don, this **** boggles my mind!