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Has anyone replaced the hydrovac steel tubing lines ? I have a 1953 4400 that needs the lines replaced .I would like prebent lines if they are made.Looking for company name and phone number .Thank you.

Don't know of any premade.
If you have good patterns you can have them duplicated from any number of tube manufacturers, or do it yourself.

I have some excellent patterns, but unfortunately they're already spoken for, perhaps you could work out a deal to send them out and have them duplicated before the next guy installs them? (send me a PM and I'll put you in touch with him)

Grigg

Thanks for the info Grigg .My lines are very rusted but could be used as a pattern .I hoped someone here could tell me where they bought the tube bent and ready to install.

Tubes are super easy to bend and shorten, just take what you have to NAPA and use yours for a guide, the hand bender tool is like $10.

you cant get them. thats something that you or your mechanic will have to do. also dont forget to get new vacuum hose and clamps to use for joining them along the frame rail.

The $10.00 bender has to large a radius .The professional bender bend's smaller radius but cost several hundred .I have bent plenty of lines just looking for a very clean OEM fit.I have talked with a tubing company and will share the info later .Thank you for your help.

What lines are you talking about that are going to the hydro vac, the vacume lines themselves or the fluid lines, there are many types of tubing benders to be had for the 1/4' tubing and make very nice short radius bends, I make all my own lines that need to be replaced, even made all the lines for a 53 2 tone under the hood for fuel vacume and they all look pretty spiffy.

Vacuum lines are either 1/2" or 3/8"
A good quality tubing bender sure makes it easy....

If it's the vacuum side you need I used Vacuum hose instead and it worked awesome. Or you can rent a conduit bender from a rental store, but hose is way easier and it's out of site anyway. Bob

I see no reason not to use the steel tube and do it right to start with, not that hose is bad, but it's not a lot of trouble to redo it as original.

A conduit bender is probably not satisfactory, but good tube bender would be.
You can find nice ones reasonably priced on ebay, look for the brands Swagelok, Imperial, Rigid, and Parker in about that order. I have some of each brand, and they are all nice and would do the job. One advantage to these is they have a pretty tight bend radius, and can easily bend normal tube without any kinking.

Grigg