Thoughts on push lock fittings?
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I did a search without much luck, so what’s the OSO brain trust’s opinions on push lock fittings for oil lines? Im running -12 lines for the oil cooler etc, and put a hose clamp on them just as a nervous nelly, but have read that can actually compromise the connection. I’m running 75# cold but it’s more of the heat that concerns me as having hose pop off on a wide open run would really suck. Safe to run without clamps, or keep them on there?
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Articfriends (think I spelled that right, probably not) if I remember correctly (suffer from CRS) is not a fan of push lock. I'm OK so long as they are low pressure, wouldn't use on oil lines. I use these
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Awesome. I was hoping to hear some real world experience. I used the stuff from CP rather than the Summit stuff. I read about a few failures on the Yellow Bullet forums but they were talking about tranny lines which I read could be anywhere from 130 to 230 on up. That black nylon stuff does look killer though, but not this time around. I just pulled the engine and taking care of the low hanging fruit.
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Once that stuff is on there it actually tightens on the fitting harder if you try to pull it off. Kinda reminds me of a girlfriend.






