I just got some fittings and braided lines. Question is, How do you get the fitting on the line properly, it's so hard to try to fit it in.

 

Did you get the swivel seal fittings? I should have taken some pics when i assembled mine, but searching google.

What i did was use black electrical tape (or masking tape) around the ends. Take a dremel with a cutoff disk and cut it in the middle of the top for a clean cut.

Undo your swivel end, and put it on the hose. Now for the hose end put it in a vise and tighten vise down good. Take hose end and push it as hard as you can into the hose end in the vice. While pushing, use your swivel end (which is already on the line) and push it up to thread it in. Tighten. That should work.

Note I left my tape on there. It works great.

 

I assume I can assemble lines without a vise? It'll just be harder right?

 

I found using a sharp hacksaw by hand I was able to get nice clean cuts and get the fittings started. I used a cut off tool on some larger (-10) lines and it worked fine, but for small stuff (-3,-4) I couldn't get a clean enough cut with anything but a hacksaw. You also might want to take the tape off the hose before finally connecting it, I'm pretty positive they weren't designed to have tape in them. May not matter, but ya never know.

 

its not really that hard at all.

I just did some -6an lines a little while ago. Just make sure you cut yourself a nice clean edge/end on the line. When your putting the line into the blue fitting, put in one side first, and then squeeze and put the other side in and then the fitting should be somewhat in. Prop the open end of the earl fitting against a wall while using a wrench to keep it from spinning, now push and twist the line until it reaches the inner lip(right before the threads). Get yourself a magic marker and mark a ring around the steel line along the bottom of blue fitting(this will help to see if the steel line is coming out while putting on the red piece). Grab the red fitting and put a little oil or wd40 on the threads and push it in and start tightening. all done

edit: Blue fitting = red
Red fitting = blue


Modified by LiLOtaku at 6:40 PM 4/19/2003