Competition High Performance Braided Hose

[biggy238]

I've never messed with the stuff, but would like to use it in the future.



How does one go from a hard steel line into braided line?

Do you have to flare the steel line and put a nut on it to mate to -AN fittings (30* flare I think) or is there some other method i'm not thinking of?



I also need a conversion method to go from I. D. " to -AN.



I could use this stuff on the truck and a street rod I plan to build and could use the knowledge.



Thanks for the help.

 

[TKiser]

Try this site. Hopefully it has everything you're looking for. Good luck with your projects.

http://russellperformance.com/tech_center/



Travis

 

[banshee]

It's easier to use a "hard tubing adapter" that uses a compression fitting on the hard tubing and comes out with a male flare. Any of the large compaines (Aeroquip or Earl's) will have them as well as any kind of fitting or adapter you can think of. Going from a threaded hole, either npt or straight threads, is cake. If you can put your hands on a catalog (Aeroquips is thicker than most textbooks) it'll help a lot.



John

 

[COMP461]

you can use aeroquip fittings all the way. the pump is 14x1. 5 and I would use a -8 on a single feed street truck, the returns are 12x1. 5 . and there I would use a -6 I'll get the part number and update as soon as the good people at NX wake up. NX carries all the aeroquip fittings at a good discount and I have them up to date on diesel fittings on a p-pump. their tol free number is 888 GOFAST1



the push on fittings are way easer then braided lines if you haven't had experience at them, I've built a lot of steel line , and the smaller stuff is the hardest. and remember one little speck of stuff and its bye bye pump, so be as clean as a doctor doing brain surgery

 

[biggy238]

Comp: I know you catch alot of hell on here, but I was actually hoping you would reply. .



I looked at the tube sleeves in the summit catalogue I have and it was non-discript with regards to what hard lines they could be used with, so I figured I had better ask you all.



Thank you guys for the replies and resources.

 

[biggy238]

Does this sleeve work similarly to an air line sleeve in which the nut pulling on the opposing fitting clamps down on the hose that is sandwiched between the nut and tube sleeve?