Re: [AMC-list] hose & fittings for main oil supply

[Joe Fulton <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you google "NASCAR oil line fittings" a lot of auctions for steel braided line show up with AN fittings.  I know your not building a Hendricks Motorsports Rambler but can't you adapt your connections to AN spec fittings?

Joe Fulton

--- On Thu, 3/11/10, tom jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: tom jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [AMC-list] hose & fittings for main oil supply
> To: "AMC, Rambler, Nash, Jeep and family" <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thursday, March 11, 2010, 6:02 PM
> Is push-on hose barbs and worm clamps
> actually safe and reliable enough for
> an engine's main oil supply? For my full-flow hack I've
> been trying to work
> out crimp or flared tubing systems, assuming that barb and
> clamp is too
> hokey for something so critical, but all of the "oil filter
> relocation" kits
> on Summit and Jeg's use just that.
> 
> There's "good enough" and "good" and I want "GOOD!".
> Assuming I use best
> quality and correct hose and parts, is there any reason not
> to use barb and
> clamp? I do tend to overengineer (with no regrets
> generally) but this job is
> a PITA to do with anything else.
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