Quest for a copper washer

[goose-em]

Vacation this week to finish the truck. Everything I need I have or will have by Wednesday or Thursday, except for tires.

The one thing I didn't order as I thought they would be easy to find and I only needed two of them were

1/2 i.d. copper washers for an old banjo bolt, (why I am using the old one is another story)

I have spent about 1 hour doing anything useful today and about 4 hours driving around town looking for the darn things.

Napa at least knew what I was talking about but even the warehouse was empty.

Carquest had an idea but none that would work.

The others, Autozone, Home Depot, Ace, Advanced, O'Reilly and Lowes didn't have them and nobody even knew what they are.

So, after a long day of searching, forgot I had a phone, I seemed to remember that Harbour freight might have them.

They do, whoop. However they are a half hour away so it will have to wait until tomorrow.

It is the little things that will stop your build.

 

[hankus]

Its always the little things that are the [ddd


Its kinda nice havin friends at a machine shop though I would have had to probably use brass

 

[Gastrick]

Try a motorcycle shop. Many of them use a banjo fitting and a copper washer at the front master cylinder on the handle bars, especially Harleys.

 

[Old Iron]

Goose, Aren't the copper washers on a GM caliper about that size?

Jim

 

[RPM]

A shop that rebuilds diesel components will have what you need. Diesel pumps and injectors have copper washers all over them.

 

[Willowbilly3]

Also in a pinch I have annealed the old ones. Just heat them up and they turn soft again.

 

[goose-em]

Sorry been busy fooling with the rod. Thanks for all the advice. I never thought about a Harley shop.

The 7/16 washers were no prob.... the 1/2 were the issue. It seems they are hard to find.

 

[ratrodz]

auto zone has an assortment of copper oil plug washers in the help section

 

[goose-em]

All the auto stores have an "assortment" of copper washers. However in none of those assortments are .500" I.D. already tried that route.

Thats okay though, I found some and am good to go.

 

[cycledog]

LOL...know what you are talking about. I am an hour from everywhere. Seems I have more invested in gas and travel time than in my last build.

 

[goose-em]

cycledog, I always say like Ulysses from Oh Brother Where Art Thou, I must be a geographical oddity, two weeks from everywhere.