Another Mopar Off My Bucket List - Barracuda Fastback
After the top was opened up we still had to bend the tubing. Now that we could form the tubing outside of the intake, it wouldn't have to undergo the back and forth bending/straightening as it did when we had been shoving it in through the small drilled hole. We tried a pair of 90' bends and found that we were still unable to get the spring back out. So we tried making a single 90' bend and found that it was difficult but not impossible to pull the spring out.
To make it work we'd have to have the spring shoved inside of the 20 foot long tube the full length. Each time we made a bend we'd pull the spring out far enough so that it would never need to be pulled through more than one formed bend at a time.
It was all working pretty good and we were almost finished when we accidentally had pulled the spring too far out and formed a bend without the spring in position. - The tube was pretty flat. Discouraged, we took a break. As we discussed starting over we also thought we should explore other options for making a heat exchanger. I think we have a new plan.
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After the top was opened up we still had to bend the tubing. Now that we could form the tubing outside of the intake, it wouldn't have to undergo the back and forth bending/straightening as it did when we had been shoving it in through the small drilled hole. We tried a pair of 90' bends and found that we were still unable to get the spring back out. So we tried making a single 90' bend and found that it was difficult but not impossible to pull the spring out.
To make it work we'd have to have the spring shoved inside of the 20 foot long tube the full length. Each time we made a bend we'd pull the spring out far enough so that it would never need to be pulled through more than one formed bend at a time.
It was all working pretty good and we were almost finished when we accidentally had pulled the spring too far out and formed a bend without the spring in position. - The tube was pretty flat. Discouraged, we took a break. As we discussed starting over we also thought we should explore other options for making a heat exchanger. I think we have a new plan.
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