ss fuel line cut! i suck at it?

[saechao04]

Alright I've cut the damn line twice now and it keeps fraying up and I am frustrated! I'm using a dremel with a cut off disc on high speed. Taped the crap out of the ss line and proceed to cut it slowly. Any advice on how to not make it fray? getting really irritated. Please help me!

ps. Camera phone is retarded at focusing. Sorry.

 

[saechao04]

Chisel, duct tape a 4-5 good whacks with a 5lbs sledge did the trick! I will install later tonight after I get off work. Hopefully I'll make it to get it tuned at English Racing and onto a dyno on saturday! Thanks everyone!

 

[droppinbottom]

Where are you going to dyno at?

 

[zimfro]

I wrapped my stainless lines with Fiberglass tape and cut them with the brown dremel wheels at medium speed. I used Aeroquip fittings and you really have to have a good grip on the hose to push them into the fitting.

 

[turboglenn]

I used to have the same trouble that you had. This is what I did.

Use duct tape. About 4 revolutions around it. I have experimented with several speeds on my dremel. I found medium cuts the cleanest. I used the black wheel. Let the dremel do the cutting for you. All you have to do is just keep it in place and not let it shift from side to side. It'll work its way down. Some fraying is alright. What I've done is set the fitting on the table with the end to shove in the line facing up. Take a hose clamp, preferable one with a screw for a flathead. Tighten it around the fray. Now set it in the fitting. Apply medium pressure, just enough to hold it in. With your free hand, take a medium sized flathead and loosen the clamp. Then use the flathead to shove any frayed ends still out into the fitting. Work slowly and patiently. Eventually it'll be all in enough that you can pick the fitting up by the hose. From then on out, slam it onto the flat surface till it's in.

As for the chisel and sledge method, Earl's Fittings has provided a video for us.
Earls Performance Products, Installation
Basically it's a really sharp mason chisel grinded down. Set the cut on an aluminum block. Use like a 5lb sledge and just hammer it.

I was just about to post this link myself...best way i've found to cut them period, and i do a lot of AN fitting/SS hose conversions where i'm making about 15-20 cuts a day, also wearing some light gloves goes along way to help keep the wire from shredding your fingers

 

[saechao04]

Some place in Oregon City, never been there but my buddy and his mr2 crew is going over there for dyno's. My first dyno was at horsepower freaks.

 

[Detective Coating]

I don't have any pics of the process but I suppose I can take some tomorrow even though I have no more fittings to do you should be able to get the point of how to do it. Keep this thread alive though ### I am rarely on here and only read through the new posts .

 

[saechao04]

Alive! Haha. Anyway I got it together, thanks to everyone's replies. It was a pain in the a** for me. My fittings kept coming off so I would have to re-cut it. My lines are too long but my neighbor was already mad at me for whacking that chisel earlier in the night. Now my car runs like crap! I may be running too rich. I'm getting backfire =(

 

[saechao04]

Update. All good to go, had the firing order wrong haha. I'll get some pics soon =D