AN fittings & stainless steel hoses?

[flores_57]

  What's the trick to installing the AN fittings on a stainless steel hose. I've poked quite afew holes in my fingers trying to figure this out along with ruining acouple of inches off the hose. It's the 6AN fittings to the SS hose. Thanks in advance

[GoodysGotaCuda]

There are vice molds you can use to help, there are little install kits. I needed neither when i did mine. Make sure you cut it well. Wrapping it tight with tape then using a cutting wheel or the like. Little oil on the fitting threads and thread it in. 

[cudabuyer]

   excellent response, we did fuel lines, heater hoses using that technique, electrical tape tight, good cut & spray silicone & patience

we also got holes in the fingers but completed the job :

[CrazyPete]

they take pratice after i did my first 4 im a pro at it now just use the tips above and the cutting wheel works best

[nivvy]

Advanced Auto has a hand held cutter that you can cut right through the -6an hose pretty easy....makes a perfect cut with no tape need on the hose !!! 

[Bart]

Cut off wheel is the only way to go. Also use duct tape as the elec tape will melt into the SS. I just did lot of this on my 34

[nivvy]

I think the cutter is the way to go...no tape needed and makes a perfect cut.... just my .02 .... 

[Robert1050]

I cringe whenever I see that someone has put Braided Steel fuel lines on their car!

When I re-stored my old 'Cuda in the early '80s, no one was repro'ing the 6 Pack fuel line, so I made my own out of Braided Fuel line.  Since the motor had 11 to 1 compression, I used to dump fuel additive into the tank on every fill-up (didn't have a source for High Octane stuff back then).  Like any rare Mopar, it sat a lot.  Then one afternoon, as I tried to fire it up to move it out of the garage, I had a beotch of a time getting it lit.  I had installed a Holley Electric fuel pump back by the tank, so I hit the switch for that, waited a few seconds for the fuel pressure to build, then tried to start it again.  Still wouldn't fire.

I get out of the car to pop the hood to see what was wrong & almost fell over with the smell of raw gas.  Looked under the car & saw about 2 - 3 gallons of fuel under the tank.  Not good.  Rolled the car out of the garage by hand, then slid under to see what was up.  Every braided line on the car had disintegrated - the fuel had eaten it's way through the rubber liner.

Don't know if it was the fuel additive or a bad lot of hose, but I will never run that stuff ever again.....

Robert

[cudabuyer]

i've had the stainless steel hose on my 69 camaro convertible for 5 years without a problem, i think there is a difference in quality of materials, mine is not cheap

[HP2]

  Every braided line on the car had disintegrated - the fuel had eaten it's way through the rubber liner.

This happened on one of my set ups in about a foot of braided hose from the regulator to the fuel log. It had been used for about 5 years. It was driven mostly in the summer, but fired once every couple of months to operating temp during the winters. One spring I was getting ready to fire it up. Fortunatly I have an electric pump I can turn on independently to prime the system. It sounded different than normal and when I opened the hood to check it out, the hose looked like a sieve with multiple pin holes allowing fuel to escape all over, some shooting directly onto the headers. I'm glad I didn't fire it up in that condition as an underhood fire could have occured.

This was Earls hosing and this car had been feed a steady diet of 101 octane Trick racing fuel during its life. I just figured it had degraded over time and with exposure to the fuel.

[Robert1050]

the hose looked like a sieve with multiple pin holes allowing fuel to escape all over, some shooting directly onto the headers. I'm glad I didn't fire it up in that condition as an underhood fire could have occured.

This was Earls hosing and this car had been feed a steady diet of 101 octane Trick racing fuel during its life. I just figured it had degraded over time and with exposure to the fuel.

Reading this was a case of Deja Vue, my hoses & fittings were from Earls also, since they were the only suppliers back then....
Robert