What can I use to hook my cats up to my air pump. WIll rubber hose work or do I need steel pipe? What kind of pipe? I saw some on Ebay a while ago, should of bookmarked it because it doesn't show up in completed auctions or anything.

 

You'd be best advised to find a stock-type pipe that will at least come close to fitting (classifieds on this board would be a good place to start looking, or post a WTB). Then, get an A.I.R. repair kit from your local friendly parts store. It will include some high temperature rubber hose to splice the pipe to the tube on the cat.

 

Autozone can special order stock replacement A.I.R manifolds and cat tubes, or you can order them directly from their website. IMO, while the repair kits can work (sometimes) they oftentimes don't fit properly, and are ridiculously overpriced.

If you decide to repair what you have rather than replace the entire tube, and if the top section of tube that carries the check valve is intact, all you need is a roll of 1/2" copper tubing from Home Depot (about $11) and two 1/2" compression fittings. Cut the old rotted section back to clean metal, and use the compression fittings to splice in the new copper section. Works perfectly.

-B

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...tem=2462959379

THis looks right, except it seems expensive.hmm

 

I checked-out a repair kit from Midas once. It used a copper tube and also included hoses and clamps. I thought it was kind of ugly, lol, but seeing it helped me come up with another idea.

Get some copper tubing and compression fittings at a home improvement store. That's all you'll need. Measure it, cut it all to length, then connect it all up. You'll have a great looking job that won't look pieced together with hoses, tubes and clamps. Inexpensive too.

And if your stock tubes come close enough to your cat's tubes that you don't need anything to fill the gap, just join them with compression fittings.