Banjo hydraulic fittings, used on vintage tractors

I can buy complete hydraulic lines from JD to get the fittings and un-braze them, but the cheapest line works out to about $40 a fitting.

If I really have to, I can fabricate these, but I was hoping to find a source to save that work.

Any thoughts?

• Thomas Register

I think the banjo fitting you speak of is the kind that is used on some fuel systems? with a hollow bolt that screws through a block?

I understand why you would say that, but I am just trying to get a braze-on banjo fitting with which to build some custom lines for adding hydraulics. The factory does have a $300+ kit that doesn't do at all what I want. I would get a total of two useful fittings out of it. I could buy one of the hard lines that has one of these fittings on each end for about $80, but that's still $40 for each fitting which just seems a bit high to me for banjos.

You cannot buy these fittings themselves anywhere that I have found in the entire US and I really have looked. I source parts commercially on a global basis for a living and believe me they are just not readily available. I found one place in India and they are taking forever to communicate with me, probably because I am asking about small volume.

I just thought that if some older tractor used these too, I might find a salvage yard that might have some, or some other source for vintage parts. It tends to be a "mature" technology.

Well, I really don't see how. I am connecting at teh same ports they provide with the power-beyond kit, but I can't use the lines they provide because they don't connect to the valve I'm adding. For more than $300 all I would get literally is two banjo fittings that I could unbraze and braze to new lines. To me that's not a good deal.

Thanks, but no that won't help. These are for SAE-8 (3/4" x 16tpi) ports. They have to have a 3/4" hole through the banjo head. Square is not a problem, and an O-ring seat would be great. I've even thought about getting a hose fitting and drilling out the hose barb to braze on tubing (some have a large diameter boss at the banjo body that could be drilled out). But regardless, a 5/8" hole isn't going to help.

It was suggested to me that older vintage tractors might have used these fittings more, and that seemed like worth a shot, but maybe not...

Thanks much!