Polytetrafluroethylene. That's what it's supposed to stand for at least.
Basically, it's some of the stuff you use everyday on almost every automotive application where you need to seal a leak.
Teflon tape. Stuff so easy to use, a moron could do it.
But we're not talkin about no stinkin' idiot tape.
It's the Teflon lined, stainless steel braided, high pressure hose I'm talking about instead. In which case, when referring to the four letter abbreviation it takes on a new meaning:
Prepare To F ucking Explode.
I bought 25' of that junk, along w/ (4) -6 90 degree ends, (3) -6 straight ends, and (1) -6 45 degree end. I intended to build my own PS hose from the pump, and two transmission lines from the cooler back to the hard lines that were cut at the front of the engine.
I got the -6 conversion fittings from MM to convert the PS pump, and rack over to -6 yesterday.
At 3:30, I started to assemble the line that comes from the pump . One stupid little 14" hose.
If you've never assembled PTFE hose before, it differs from standard braided hose in that there is a teflon liner in the center of the hose as opposed to a rubber core. The process involves cutting the end of the hose, sliding the socket over the hose, flaring the SS braid away from the teflon liner, sliding a brass ferrel over the teflon liner, inserting the hose end into the teflon liner, then screwing the end, and socket together.
Ohh,........one last step.
Spend the next several hours, trying to screw the hose end into the socket.
I used Summit branded stuff. This is probably one case where the "Made in China" on the bags the hose ends come in should have been a warning that this wasn't gonna end well.
They barely go together. When I say barely, I mean you will be doing your damndest just to get one thread to engage. In my case, the first hose end was cross threaded, and it promptly killed it.
Get out new hose end, and start over.
The second time, after looking at the orientation after the one thread engaged about a dozen times, I committed to trying to tighten the assembly, and it went together. Great........it only took about 45 minutes to put one hose end on, and it took two ends to accomplish that feat.
The other end of the hose was a 45. I spent 2 hours trying to get that bastard to screw together. No matter how much you trimmed the braid, or nibbled the teflon liner, you could not get the two pieces close enough to screw them together. I go inside, and Google PTFE hose assembly and watch two different You Tube vids to be sure that I'm not missing anything, and the guys on the vid both manage to assemble the hose end in under a couple of minutes. I go back down stairs and literally compress the two ends together w/ C clamps, and two different brake flare tools I have, and they still won't engage.
By now, it's 6PM. I'm eating steel, and spitting nails I'm so p issed. It was at this time I call Summit to tell them that their Chinese piece of s hit ends don't work.
I expected them to tell me that because I've ruined the one end, and cut the 25' line ( 70.00 for the hose) that the best I can hope for is a refund on the unopened, un assembled stuff.
Not the deal.
Dude says that if I'm not happy after 972 orders (yeah, I've bought alot of s hit from Summit) to send it all back. Even the cross threaded end, the 45 that has all kinds of nicks from being cranked into a vise, and the 25' hose that is now 23.5' long.
I'm less pis sed now, but I still have to find a way to get the hoses built that I need.
I call Oreillys (because it says on their door that they build hoses).
I ask the guy if he has -6 line, 45 degree -6 hose ends, and specify that one has to be straight, and one at 45 degrees. He tells me that he does, I ask how much will it be to build me one 15" long hose.
$38.00.
Ordinarily, I'd pass, but I'm still a little p issed.
I go there. I take the piece of junk braided hose with me as a reference
When I get there it turns out that the hoses ends are in fact JIC (aka 37 degree). Dude apologizes and tells me that Napa across the street has the correct hose ends and if I want to go there, and pay them for the ends, he'll assemble the hose for me.
Now I'm just defeated. I start to reason what the hell is the big rush that I need to spend probably close to 50 stinkin' dollars on one hose for a car that is months away from even needing this thing. I bail on the whole ordeal, and go back home.
When I get back home, it's close to 7PM. I go eat w/ my #2 son (Wifes out of town on business, and bringing #1 back from the AF base in Shreveport LA. so he can pick up the 86 hatchback that's been sitting in the driveway for a month now). The time spent eating has calmed me. Unfortunately, the calming effect only managed to bolster my resolve to make that hose go together.
I go back down there, and dick around for another hour trying to make the impossible possible. It is never gonna happen.
I decide that I'll bail on the 45, and attempt to put a straight end on there instead. I mock the hose up again to determine if it'll work.
It's waay too short. Matter of fact, with all of the trimming, and nibbling I've done trying to get the 45 to work, even if I would've got the end on there, the whole damnned thing is about 3/8" too short anyway.
How pissed would I be now if I would've paid 50 bucks for a hose that was 3/8" too short?
Besides the fact that the hose is too short now, the one hose end that is in there is in reality, non-reusable, because the ferrel crushes when it's tightened. So, I couldn't use it again for that reason.
But...........I do have this other ferrel from the sorry assed 45 that would never go together.
If I can just find where it landed after I smashed the hose end against my counter.
Basically, it's some of the stuff you use everyday on almost every automotive application where you need to seal a leak.
Teflon tape. Stuff so easy to use, a moron could do it.
But we're not talkin about no stinkin' idiot tape.
It's the Teflon lined, stainless steel braided, high pressure hose I'm talking about instead. In which case, when referring to the four letter abbreviation it takes on a new meaning:
Prepare To F ucking Explode.
I bought 25' of that junk, along w/ (4) -6 90 degree ends, (3) -6 straight ends, and (1) -6 45 degree end. I intended to build my own PS hose from the pump, and two transmission lines from the cooler back to the hard lines that were cut at the front of the engine.
I got the -6 conversion fittings from MM to convert the PS pump, and rack over to -6 yesterday.
At 3:30, I started to assemble the line that comes from the pump . One stupid little 14" hose.
If you've never assembled PTFE hose before, it differs from standard braided hose in that there is a teflon liner in the center of the hose as opposed to a rubber core. The process involves cutting the end of the hose, sliding the socket over the hose, flaring the SS braid away from the teflon liner, sliding a brass ferrel over the teflon liner, inserting the hose end into the teflon liner, then screwing the end, and socket together.
Ohh,........one last step.
Spend the next several hours, trying to screw the hose end into the socket.
I used Summit branded stuff. This is probably one case where the "Made in China" on the bags the hose ends come in should have been a warning that this wasn't gonna end well.
They barely go together. When I say barely, I mean you will be doing your damndest just to get one thread to engage. In my case, the first hose end was cross threaded, and it promptly killed it.
Get out new hose end, and start over.
The second time, after looking at the orientation after the one thread engaged about a dozen times, I committed to trying to tighten the assembly, and it went together. Great........it only took about 45 minutes to put one hose end on, and it took two ends to accomplish that feat.
The other end of the hose was a 45. I spent 2 hours trying to get that bastard to screw together. No matter how much you trimmed the braid, or nibbled the teflon liner, you could not get the two pieces close enough to screw them together. I go inside, and Google PTFE hose assembly and watch two different You Tube vids to be sure that I'm not missing anything, and the guys on the vid both manage to assemble the hose end in under a couple of minutes. I go back down stairs and literally compress the two ends together w/ C clamps, and two different brake flare tools I have, and they still won't engage.
By now, it's 6PM. I'm eating steel, and spitting nails I'm so p issed. It was at this time I call Summit to tell them that their Chinese piece of s hit ends don't work.
I expected them to tell me that because I've ruined the one end, and cut the 25' line ( 70.00 for the hose) that the best I can hope for is a refund on the unopened, un assembled stuff.
Not the deal.
Dude says that if I'm not happy after 972 orders (yeah, I've bought alot of s hit from Summit) to send it all back. Even the cross threaded end, the 45 that has all kinds of nicks from being cranked into a vise, and the 25' hose that is now 23.5' long.
I'm less pis sed now, but I still have to find a way to get the hoses built that I need.
I call Oreillys (because it says on their door that they build hoses).
I ask the guy if he has -6 line, 45 degree -6 hose ends, and specify that one has to be straight, and one at 45 degrees. He tells me that he does, I ask how much will it be to build me one 15" long hose.
$38.00.
Ordinarily, I'd pass, but I'm still a little p issed.
I go there. I take the piece of junk braided hose with me as a reference
When I get there it turns out that the hoses ends are in fact JIC (aka 37 degree). Dude apologizes and tells me that Napa across the street has the correct hose ends and if I want to go there, and pay them for the ends, he'll assemble the hose for me.
Now I'm just defeated. I start to reason what the hell is the big rush that I need to spend probably close to 50 stinkin' dollars on one hose for a car that is months away from even needing this thing. I bail on the whole ordeal, and go back home.
When I get back home, it's close to 7PM. I go eat w/ my #2 son (Wifes out of town on business, and bringing #1 back from the AF base in Shreveport LA. so he can pick up the 86 hatchback that's been sitting in the driveway for a month now). The time spent eating has calmed me. Unfortunately, the calming effect only managed to bolster my resolve to make that hose go together.
I go back down there, and dick around for another hour trying to make the impossible possible. It is never gonna happen.
I decide that I'll bail on the 45, and attempt to put a straight end on there instead. I mock the hose up again to determine if it'll work.
It's waay too short. Matter of fact, with all of the trimming, and nibbling I've done trying to get the 45 to work, even if I would've got the end on there, the whole damnned thing is about 3/8" too short anyway.
How pissed would I be now if I would've paid 50 bucks for a hose that was 3/8" too short?
Besides the fact that the hose is too short now, the one hose end that is in there is in reality, non-reusable, because the ferrel crushes when it's tightened. So, I couldn't use it again for that reason.
But...........I do have this other ferrel from the sorry assed 45 that would never go together.
If I can just find where it landed after I smashed the hose end against my counter.
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