This is a very quick guide to the easy building of stainless overbraided brake hoses. Oil and fuel hoses are just the same.
I am using euroquip fitting from https://www.motorsport-tools.com in the UK.. It was the cheapest place I could find.
1) Mark your pipe and clamp it lightly in a vice whilst you cut it, don't over tighten.
2) The pipe is cut using a fine Razor saw.
3) My unions , 6 Bulkhead and 2 Convex Males.
4) The Four parts of the union
Clamp nut, Union , olive and as it's a bulkhead fitting a lock nut too.
5) Pop both your nuts on back to back on the pipe, and tape them in place. Do it now before you forget. No Now!
5.1) Did you do it! You may regret it later if you did not.
6) The cut pipe end and the inner part of the union, note that the chamfered area is where the actual sealing goes on as the pipe is clamped into place.
7) This is the Olive that will push over the pipe end.
8) You need to splay the braid back to get the olive on, watch your fingers. the pipe end should also be deburred and cleaned up. make sure the cut is at 90 degrees too.
9) You now need to push the olive on until it's fully home on the pipe, you can just see it behind the braid. The Braid then needs to be trimmed so that is more or less level with the outer end of the olive. If you don't trim them it will foul the threads of the nut. Don't over trim them as they are what holds it all together! Try and make the braid spread evenly round the olive.
10) Push the clamp nut over the braid and up to the thread, notice here we can see a little bit of braid, this could jam the nut or damage the thread so cut it back. Make sure that the pipe is pushed fully home as you begin to tighten the nut.
11) A bit Blurred, thighten the clamp nut up until it lands on the end of the fitting. And that's and end done.
12) And finaly all the lines finished. Put some tape over the ends to keep them sealed from dust until fittng.
