[Fot] explaination of fittings...

[Michael Porter]

Irv Korey wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Kas Kastner <kaskas at cox.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> ---- riverside <riverside at southslope.net> wrote:
>>
>> One note on the stainless braided line.  Check the routing as anything it
>> rubs against it will slowly ground away or  through including aluminum
>> castings and plastic parts.
>>  A bit of shrink tube over the hose at the chaff points fixes it though.
>>
>>     
>
> If your stainless line is already assembled on the car, and you don't want
> to disassemble to install shrink tube, you can make a nice hose cover with
> the inner tube from a bicycle tire and some wire wraps.
>
>   

Irv, Aeroquip (probably other manufacturers, too) now offer high-helix 
spiral isolators that seem to be made of nylon and can be installed with 
the hose in place. Very clean and neat.  Only proviso is that one has to 
make sure the isolator is positioned properly so that the isolator 
actually meets the contact points.  Not preferable to proper padded 
clips, but, still, a pretty good alternative to tearing things down, and 
very useful where there's a tangle of hoses contacting each other.


Cheers.

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Michael Porter
Roswell, NM


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