Looking for hoses for my external steering.
Need hoses and fitting because someone replaced them before me and used hoses with steel fittings.
Local hose shop says they can’t get chrome brass or anything that won’t rust fittings.
Latham wants $100 each for the black hose and fittings.
Hardin wants $70 each for the SS braided hoses.
Any other places to look? I’m fine with the black hose, just don’t want steel or regular brass fittings.
#6 JIC fittings.

i think i have four imco hoses that i used for one year. didnt like the black hose so i replaced them with stainless braid. they are stainless with black hose. i'll see if they are still at my shop tomorrow.

On the Gulf coast (of Florida) I can get custom hoses (non-SS) and stainless steel fittings...but the prices are about the same as you are finding from the vendors.

Are you sure it's not -8 JIC?
I ordered these -6, 1.5 ft. (Mine were actually -8)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/303532728274?var=602750790833

We just replaced a couple fittings on the Bullet and they were JIC.

Have you received and installed them yet? What do you think?
We may have different systems. This is for a 99 32 fountain. I called Latham and sent a pic and told them what size wrench fits it.

Looked at the eBay hoses and they are 1500 psi. Anyone know what is required? Did not find a good answer from a quick google search.

Have you tried local hydraulic shops?

I did.
No luck.

Needs to be 2200+. I actually did mine this year with 4000psi. It was a little more rigid than the 3000psi.
Mine are Marine Machine and JIC-6 is stamped on the fittings. The fittings are reusable, but it was no easy task.

I could not use any stock length hoses because of my ext boxes.