[GregWeld]

Okay -- Here's your pictorial on PTFE/TEFLON braided hose.


Cutting this hose is WAY more critical than the braided rubber... BECAUSE the teflon liner is a super tight fit and you must insert the fitting into it before you get to the threads AND you can't have it mangled - or cut - or melted in any way!


MY WAY..... or suffer!






So don't use a cut off saw... that melts it.

Don't use the giant wire cutters - that deforms it! You'll never get the fitting in after you've done this and by the time you do - the braid or something else will be a giant mess! Fugedaboudit...


This is what the PTFE/TEFLON hose looks like -- very nice thin liner...





This is the tool you will need -- a few of them to do all the sizes... this tool helps you in TWO WAYS.... it opens up the braid from the liner -- I stick it in and wiggle it around a bit.... AND -- most important it also will then be used to insert the little brass ferrel barrel around the liner and down into the braid. Try this with your thumbs and you will just need to own a pharmacy...






Insert and wiggle to open the braid a bit....






So now you have this!






Now put the ferrel barrel thingy magingy on it and put that on the liner....







DO NOT FORGET TO PUT THE HOSE INTO THE FIRST PART OF YOUR FITTING.... BEFORE YOU SPREAD THE BRAID AND DO THE FERREL BARREL.... or whatever the heck it's called....



BADA BING BADA BOOM --- you got TWO of the THREE parts done!






AND --- you have to make sure that the liner is up inside the ferrel barrel where it belongs -- like way up in there!





Now you're ready to install it in your vise -- and TRY to get the rest of the fitting down INSIDE the liner.... Lube the thing with your handy dandy silicone spray and go STRAIGHT into the liner. Get it off angle and do the liner mangle and you'll be cutting a new hose....





Now you're ready to get the threads going -- don't forget a dab of anti-seize....





Now you have a nice HIGH PRESSURE Power steering and or FUEL hose....
And if you get A/C hose liner you can use it for that too -- but that is A/C hose == it's BLUE inside --- and takes O ringed fittings.