[Tigers] Oil pressure line question

[Cullen McCann]

that's a neat Idea John, I remember using some "RIT" dye to tint a clear
plastic canopy on a model airplane many years ago... worked then too!

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 8:01 PM, H2Otor--- via Tigers <tigers at autox.team.net
> wrote:

> My black oil gauge line broke on the car when I bumped it with a  wrench.
> Line was really brittle after 100,000 miles and 25 years old.  I
> purchased a
> replacement white oil line kit from Sunbeam Specialties years ago  and it
> had compression fitting on the plastic line not slip on fittings.  Don't
> laugh, but I used  a box of black RITZ (sp ?) Dye and mixed it  in a quart
> fruit
> jar of water and placed the line in the dye and dyed the  plastic oil line
> black. I had both ends of the plastic line sealed and left it  in the dye
> for several weeks during the winter time and I placed the fruit  jar of
> dye on
> the gas furnace near the chimney so every time the furnace  came on it
> would heat up the dye.  I don't know if they sell the same  plastic line
> or not
> but the line is still dark black.
> John Watertor
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