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Originally Posted by LMH
I'm not aware of anyone replicating the expansion tank tube but it shouldn't be too hard if it's ok with Dan to use his drawings.
Larry
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The tooling to swage down the end of a tube is very specialized and very expensive, at least production tools were/are very expensive. It took me a long time to find somebody to make me a couple for cars I was working on. They had no interest in making more and selling them.
I have seen some almost like originals made by other processes and one dealer offered (maybe twenty years ago?) welded tube within a tube ends to provide a reduced diameter end for the water pump connection end.
I have sent drawings to several original car owners before but I never got to see what they came up with.
Dan