An Fittings - who's got 'em CHEAP?

It's time to get some fuel lines run on the digger.

Who's got the best price on these things???

Is there any difference between manufacturers on these or are they all pretty comparable??

Thanks

 

I bought my new ones at Summit Racing.com If you buy the Summit brand they are about alittle over 1/2 the price as Earls fittings. Hope this helps.....

 

Speedway Motors has the best pricing on AN fittings. Buy their Brand and save money on both hose and AN fittings.

 

You play with 392 hemis but your looking to save money on your AN fittings? Pretty vital stuff. Go see your local hot rod shop, they have the best service.
I prefer Russel fittings and hose.

 

Hell man, that sounds like a great excuse to drive to Tallmadge and go through the clearance corner. As they said above, the "Summit" brand is cheaper and made on the same line as one of the name brands.

 

I love the push- lok connectors. They are a little more but they are NHRA approved and don't have any crimps or having to dick with the threading of the sleeves.

I buy mine from Smiley's racing. It's a local circle track place.

 

I'm not hung up on aluminum fittings so I just go to the local pump and line supply and get my fittings and lines made there for about a 1/4 of the cost of aluminum and braided stainless.
No complaints so far. Have even run can in 'em.

 

JIC fittings at any hydraulic supply. same 37 degree flare as AN stuff. David

 

Oh yeah, Summit carries black anodized fittings if you aren't looking for the patriotic fitting look. I'm sure other brands are offering the same now. Here's a black filter and fittings heading toward the carb. Have used Earls and Russel also with no ill feelings. Just make sure you get o-ring sealed spinning fittings on the angles you need some play in.

 

You can also get black braided ( nylon? ) lines to match the black fittings. They're much lighter and easier to work with than the ss line. They have a nice subtle look and they're approved for all fuels. I think the Earl's version is called Pro Lite 350.

 

I used Jegs push-lok fittings and hose on my digger. Super easy to use and i used all black so it blends in and is not as noticable as those red and blue ones.

 

i've found alot of fittings used once by race teams at a fraction of summits prices on racing junk com

 

Do what I did. Get a job at an airline.

 

The answer to your question is of course YES. My cheapness is well documented - as far as the digger goes being cheap is the only way I could have pulled it off (facts are facts). As for playing with 392's and being cheap - there once WAS a time when a fella could buy these parts for dirt - I bought as much as I could back then - kick myself I didn't buy more. Otherwise I've fabbed as much as I could on the digger - for a couple reasons - some believe it's solely cause I'm cheap (and maybe it is part of it)but making stuff is part of what I consider fun so I suppose it goes hand in hand. BTW in no way am I suggesting cutting corners here - paying more ONCE meant getting more quality - I find that while that was once true - it is NO LONGER necessarily true today. Some companies just charge more and still give you crap.

As for going to the local rod shop - those all died around here back in the late 80's/early 90's

I think Summit was the straw that broke the camel's back as far as that went.

Yeah - I'm not really into the "red,white & blue" theme - my car is LOW BUCK and that stuff would be out of place on my car. I do like the JIC suggestion.

Thanks eveyone - I always like to run questions past the masses here - there's ALWAYS some great comments!!!!

 

went to summit which is my local rod shop

funnily enough, some of the earls fittings beat them on price on some stuff - so i just get whichever is cheapest for the fiting I need. None of them match - in fact i always buy the pipe thread reducers from home depot (brass) 79c instead of $8

 

I use Genuine Aircraft Hardware all the time at work, in the aviation buisness the prices are competitive.
I have also used Action Aerospace products in Texas for stuff, they are very reasonable.
e-mail for the contact numbers if you need them.

joel@joelharris.com

Joel

 

I use steel JIC fittings from the local hydraulic supply store. They usually cost about 1/5th of the aluminum ones and you can even buff/polish the coating on them to a nice silver finish which goes nicely with the SS tubing I use. The red or blue aluminum stuff is to gaudy for my taste.

 

speedway motors has good prices on fittings they sell half the price of earls,aeroquip, I also use brass pipe thread fittings.

 

I got the black ones at Summit put on my bike for the oil lines with aluminum tubing 30 psi going down the road.

 

Here's a pic of a hydraulic parts house hose.
Re-usable fittings on the ends, work very much like the Earls and Aeroquip fittings.
Hose construction similar to stainless braided hose.




If I remember right, the fittings are 2/5 - 1/2 the cost of the aluminum stuff.
Cad iriditing on most, but some are plated (nickel?) and look close to chrome.

Standard fittings are 45* SAE and as noted, JIC is 37* AN.


I've cut male aluminum Earls fittings to a 45* angle on the cone with my lathe.
You can also run 37* with 45* if you use a 'repair' cone.
A shaped soft steel gasket like piece - third pic.

The #10 hose in the pic is rated 3000# and is a little stiffer than an Earls #10.

Little brother plumbed the first iteration of his Henry J dragracer with hydraulic house hose, both fuel and oil lines and had no problems.
I tried the same on my 32.
The fuel (gasoline) ate through the hose overnight.
So I'd be real careful there.

No probs with the oil lines, 14 years and 48,000 miles on the 32 so far.


Here's a cookie tin full of the hydraulic house fittings.



Look at the blue anodized 90* fitting.
It has a 'repair' cone sitting on the nose.

The fittings on the round fuel block are the plated type mentioned above.

 

Your going to find that places like summit or jegs will not have some of the fittings needed for a fuel injection system. Special order on that one i've heard it many times. If your running alky you'll need the hard anodized fittings , the common ones will be eaten alive. http://www.goodridge.net/usa/index.htm is a good sorce , Its a pay now or pay for me again thing. jic hydraulic fittings are great on a back hoe but not a race car, The last thing you need to be doing is chasing an aeration problem .