Pipe Cuppling

ryan20strohl · Post by **ryan20strohl** » Sat. Sep. 01, 2012 8:59 pm

is anyone out there making pipe cuppling for efm units I heard they were making them out of 2 1/2 sch 40 pipe, then drill and thread for bolts

Post by **stoker-man** » Sun. Sep. 02, 2012 11:13 am

It doesn't matter what you use as long as it holds the two pipes together tightly in the middle (no air gap) and is sealed afterwards around the edges. The problem comes if you have to take the pipes apart. Will everything be rusted together? The split pipe coupling is the nicest setup.

ryan20strohl · Post by **ryan20strohl** » Sun. Sep. 02, 2012 9:22 pm

we are actually using a fernco

Post by **Rob R.** » Sun. Sep. 02, 2012 9:24 pm

ryan20strohl wrote:we are actually using a fernco

That is not something that ever occurred to me. Is it stiff enough to get the pipes aligned?

The split coupling from EFM is nice.

Scottscoaled · Post by **Scottscoaled** » Sun. Sep. 02, 2012 9:35 pm

Whats a fernco?

ryan20strohl · Post by **ryan20strohl** » Sun. Sep. 02, 2012 9:40 pm

a piece of rubber with 2 hoses clamps on the ends, works really well actually don't have to seal it, its rubber and it slides up the pipe easy so no fighting cupplings or bolts its about 3/3 thick rubber

ryan20strohl · Post by **ryan20strohl** » Sun. Sep. 02, 2012 9:41 pm

3/8 thick I mean

k9 Bara · Post by **k9 Bara** » Sun. Sep. 02, 2012 10:21 pm

Scottscoaled wrote:Whats a fernco?

I used one in this picture. Connects the auger dump to the white PVC pipe. The fernco is black in color, the white strip is just the label I didn't take off. . My nephew called it a fernco last night, he had to educate me because it's just a rubber coupling to me.

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McGiever · Post by **McGiever** » Sun. Sep. 02, 2012 10:43 pm

It is a brand name and come in a vast assortment of configurations, of which couplings is just one.

click on link below for info...

FERNCO

SMITTY · Post by **SMITTY** » Sun. Sep. 02, 2012 10:50 pm

Learn something new every day. I used one of those about 15 years ago on my Grand Marquis, so I could attach a K&N filter I found tossed on the side of an off-ramp in Worcester. I spotted it weeks earlier .. then one day after pricing those filters out, I stopped & grabbed it. Didn't get rear-ended either! I bought a PVC reducer & attached one end to the filter, & the other to the "sewer pipe coupler" (Fernco) , and that to the stock intake plumbing.

Filter was on there when the car was stolen by Mexicans & lived in for a year, and was on there the day I sold it out in CA.

Pipe Cuppling

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