Originally Posted by Digi7ech

Took a break from the technical stuff and painted the hood.

Originally Posted by hondahater

lol, drifters are so wierd To each thier own though.

Originally Posted by Aaron Cake

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I love AN fittings when used with braided stainless hose. It's the damn Push Lock, Twist Lock or other types of "cheap" push on hose that kills me. All the manufacturers offer some kind of push-on hose with special fittings that is supposed to be cheap, easy to assemble and lightweight but I find that it's none of the above. It's a real pain in the *** to assemble and the fittings are the same price (if not more) then regular AN fittings...Without a doubt it's lighter though.

Now, the trick with AN fittings is to buy good stuff and practice. Don't buy no-name fittings and hose, stick with the major brand names. The quality of the stainless braid and it's adhesion to the rubber hose is inferior on the generic stuff. The machine work on the generic fittings is also nowhere near as good as the name brand fittings.

With -6 and larger, the success you have assembling the fitting will depend on the quality of cut you make on the hose. To get a good cut you first need to wrap the area you wish to slice tightly with electrical tape. Try to wrap it so that you are only cutting through 2 layers of tape. Place the hose in a vice tight enough to hold it in place but not tight enough to deform it, with the cut line about 0.5" from the jaws. Using a VERY THIN cutoff wheel, slice through the hose in one swoop exerting just enough pressure to neatly cut the line but not enough to grab the hose or the braiding. If you do this right, you won't get much smoke from the rubber and the cut surface will be clean and flat.

Now remove from the vice and pull the tape off slowly and at a sharp angle. Place the socket into the vice and using the tips of your fingernails (grow them long) keep the braid against the hose while you push the hose into the socket just past the initial lip. This is the hardest part and is a real pain with hose smaller then -6. It takes some practice to do this without totally fraying the braid so it's best to start with a larger diameter hose. -8 and -10 are very easy.

Once you have the hose past the lip of the socket, twist it in the appropriate direction while pushing firmly on the hose until it bottoms in the socket.

Now mount the socket into a vice and liberally lubricate the inside of the hose and threads with motor oil, as well as the nipple on the hose end. Push the nipple into the socket and start screwing the fitting into the nipple while making sure the hose isn't pushed out the other end. In my experience the hose almost never pushes out.

-4 is a special case and takes real technique. I end up using a Dremel tool with a cutting wheel at the highest speed. With two layers of tape on the cut line, I work around the circumference of the line making sure to cut cleanly through the braid. It's going to fray a little. Then I cut through the rubber. With the socket FIRMLY mounted in a vice I've found the best technique is to leave the tape on, use your fingernails to get as much of the braid in there as possible. Not all of it is going to go. The trick now is to just shove the hose in as hard as possible while twisting. A good pair of grippy gloves helps with this. It's going to take some twisting to get it started and a considerable amount of effort but once you get it into the socket you can keep ramming it home until it bottoms. This may take more then one try if you've never done before. Because of the general stiffness of smaller diameter hose you will probably want to slightly ream the inside of the hose and lubricate it liberally before you start screwing in the nipple.