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Originally Posted by henryv007 Guys, Just wanted to mention something about the installs while your doing them. (I did put this on another posy earlier) While running the oil lines,

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Guys, Just wanted to mention something about the installs while your doing them. (I did put this on another posy earlier) While running the oil lines, the type pictured that are covered with a metal type protection, make sure that you put an extra covering on the hoses anyplace they touch the frame, body or suspension. If not you run the risk that vibration will sooner or later rub the line and cause an oil leak, and according to a rgeat tech at Stillen, the metal on the lines causes some noise when they rub metal to metal. I fixed this by taking short pcs. of heater hose that when split the long way allowed me to wrap the line at its "rub" point, giving it a rubber "bushing" not a metal one to sacrifice and avoid what ever noise caused. I used zip ties to pull the hose back together and hold the hose in place. Now no worries about any hose moving about and rubbing through and leaking out the life blood of our motors. Hose cost a few bucks and I used about 2 feet total in as many places as I could see might be an issue.
I agree, but for a different reason! Stainless braided Oil lines will saw through anything given time. You need to worry less about the lines and more about whatever they are touching!...... A few years back I had one eventually saw a hole in a power steering hard line on my Audi 300 miles from home (after being installed for 4 + years). The drive home was NOT fun...
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