Quote Originally Posted by pat mccarthy View Post
i made tubes for upper and lower out of steel and alum with no beads on the ends never lost one Burns and other sell tube in s steel or alum. alum will not be hard to roll the bead in with the s steel i would just tig a bead on it i allways just used band clamps and turn them so you do not see the screw head. i trim the clamp for hose size so there is no tail hang off the clamp so when done you only see the band thats all
Pat,
I'm thinking that a piece of exhaust pipe should work fine. With a good 50/50 mix of antifreeze they should never corrode, and I really don't think that they will be captured between the inlet/outlet fittings, so not much way they can go anywhere. I've got two hoses that are close, but need a bit of tweaking to fit right. I may check the plumbing dept at Lowe's tomorrow to see if they have anything that might work...