> > "Rogers, Bob J." wrote:

 >>
 >> Here is the web site for a company that specializes in Earl's
fittings. And
 >> yes, they do have
 >> AN-24 hose end fittings.
http://www.amstreetrod.com/html/auto-fit.html  I
 >> did not see any AN-24 weld on adaptors for the radiator,
however.  If you do
 >> not already have an AN-24 male threaded head coming off the radiator, how
 >> will you attach the hose connection?

 There may be an insurmountable problem  when it comes to running large hoses
 with AN Fittings.  I just got off the phone with C & R Racing and they said
 the upper limit for them with AN fittings is 1.250."  Interestingly, they
 sometimes run as small as .750 hose on competition engines.  I finally
 ordered a pile of 1.125 female pipe bungs and I am going to convert the
 engine outlets and the radiator to this size.  I was very tempted to order
 1.5 regular hose inlets and just forget about the AN stuff.  Either way, it
 is a compromise.

 Good decisions come from experience.
 Experience comes from bad decisions.

 Jerry

Have you considered 1-3/8 inch wiggins couplings and aluminum pipe Jerry?
Butch, you got any wiggins couplings left?
Paul Lamar

  Hi all:

        Wiggins and pipe get my vote - light, bulletproof,
self-aligning, no worries
about cracking the welded AN fitting-to-very thin rad connection when torquing
the hose end, etc.

Regards,
James

 
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