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Old Oct 31, 2007 | 01:38 AM
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HELP! Stainless Steel Braided Fuel lines.

I'm currently doing a swap from a cc qjet to a 305 TPI and the fuel lines are on the wrong side. So I decided to use stainless braided line to route the fuel lines to the drivers side. I plan on routing the lines on the fire wall.

My question is how do you use the hard line adapter fitting?? The fittin i have is just like this one on jegs: http://www.jegs.com/webapp/wcs/store...56885_-1_10019

I'm using -6 an line and fittings for the return and the pressured line. The pressured line is 3/8" and the return line is 5/16". That fitting should work for both right?? I cant seem to figure out how to use the fitting. What do I need to do to the hard line in order get the fitting to work?

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Old Oct 31, 2007 | 12:15 PM
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Re: HELP! Stainless Steel Braided Fuel lines.

cut off the end of the stock fitting then slide the factory line into that tube and tighten, it's a basic compression fitting. IMO, I would just get some adapter fittings to work with your factory fittings and do it that way. You don't need to run the line along the firewall and that is not the safest way either. Just run the single line over the valve cover and into a 90' fitting on the dual feed line into your holley carb.
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Old Oct 31, 2007 | 07:07 PM
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Re: HELP! Stainless Steel Braided Fuel lines.

im using on of those fittings, just a basic compression fitting, it worked well, depends on the condition of you existing hard lines, they need to be clean, mine are new.

they dont make one for the 5/16 line, just the 3/8. To use the 5/16 you would probably have to flare the pipe and use a AN flare nut.
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