Vacuum hose for boost gauge needed

[Devistator]

I guess is 1/8 od clear vacuum hose.
Mine was bursting after 10-15 minutes of driving the car.
Cutting and cutting more to reconnect the hose left me without anny room to reconect the vacuum hose to the gauge.
I tried on the internet and all the auto stores with no success.
Please help me locate the place where i can order one.

Thanks

 

[psychlow]

Check your PMs, I have one.

 

[Coldandafraid]

or, you can Jb weld a bigger 1/4 fitting on the end of the boost gauge, and use a regular 1/4 vac hose, same stuff used in the rest of our car.

 

[scrcco]

Go to the hardware store and get a fitting with a barb for the back of your boost gauge so you can use the black rubber hose. I don't think that clear stuff is that great.

 

[psychlow]

The reason I don't like to use soft line is because it likes to flex and you don't get as accurate of a boost signal. If you want to do this, though, Home Depot sells brass fittings that will work for like $2-4, I think.

 

[Coldandafraid]

yep, that may be true... but it is tapped into the fuel pressure solenoid... which is already a "soft" line. Anyways, your decision.

 

[psychlow]

but it is tapped into the fuel pressure solenoid... which is already a "soft" line.

Agreed. My thought on this is there's only about two feet of soft line from the intake manifold to the FP solenoid and FPR, which isn't a whole lot of surface area to flex compared to 6+ total feet of of it going to the gauge. It's probably not enough to even make 1PSI gauge difference, but because I'm quirky like that, I know it'd bother me.

 

[SikRacing97GST]

Ace Hardware has vaccum hose that are identical to the ones that come with autometer boost guages

 

[Defiant]

An industrial bearing supply shop will have any kind of tubing you'll ever need.