Piston
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The hoses coming from the work ports of the new valve, to the rear remotes, were a bit tricky.
I used 24" hoses to connect the right side remotes, and 36" hoses to connect the left side remotes.
The tricky part was getting all those hoses connected to the 90* fittings, also, getting the 90* fittings into the valve.
The 90* fittings coming out of the valve, were difficult to screw into the ports because the 90* fitting would hit another 90* fitting as I tried to screw it in.
A time saving tip that I didn't know, would be to screw all the 90* fittings into the seperate spools before you put the valve together, like you see in the first and second pic (I put it all together, then tried to put the fittings in, then realized I had to take it apart)
However, if you don't go with a stack valve you wouldn't have this option, I believe they have fittings that swivel at the bottom which you could tighten without interfering with others, but keep in mind the more swivels and connections you have, the more chance of a leak. Notice in the first two pics, I used taller 90* fittings for 4 of the hoses, and shorter ones for the other 4, this way I could have 4 hoses going over the top of the other 4 hoses, rather than trying to cram 8 hoses side by side, because I could not have done that.
These 90* fittings were all SAE #8 (aka O-ring Boss) to 1/2" JIC male adapters. This way, once I have all the elbow's in the valve, all I have to do is tighten down the hoses (which were all JIC female fittings). I didn't tighten down the elbows in the valve until after the hoses were connected, which helped me because I had to adjust a few things here and there to get the hoses to fit where I wanted them.
SAE 37ー Flare (JIC) x O-Ring Boss (ORB) 90ー Elbow
SAE 37ー Flare (JIC) x O-Ring Boss (ORB) 90ー Extra Long Elbow
I used 24" hoses to connect the right side remotes, and 36" hoses to connect the left side remotes.
The tricky part was getting all those hoses connected to the 90* fittings, also, getting the 90* fittings into the valve.
The 90* fittings coming out of the valve, were difficult to screw into the ports because the 90* fitting would hit another 90* fitting as I tried to screw it in.
A time saving tip that I didn't know, would be to screw all the 90* fittings into the seperate spools before you put the valve together, like you see in the first and second pic (I put it all together, then tried to put the fittings in, then realized I had to take it apart)
However, if you don't go with a stack valve you wouldn't have this option, I believe they have fittings that swivel at the bottom which you could tighten without interfering with others, but keep in mind the more swivels and connections you have, the more chance of a leak. Notice in the first two pics, I used taller 90* fittings for 4 of the hoses, and shorter ones for the other 4, this way I could have 4 hoses going over the top of the other 4 hoses, rather than trying to cram 8 hoses side by side, because I could not have done that.
These 90* fittings were all SAE #8 (aka O-ring Boss) to 1/2" JIC male adapters. This way, once I have all the elbow's in the valve, all I have to do is tighten down the hoses (which were all JIC female fittings). I didn't tighten down the elbows in the valve until after the hoses were connected, which helped me because I had to adjust a few things here and there to get the hoses to fit where I wanted them.
SAE 37ー Flare (JIC) x O-Ring Boss (ORB) 90ー Elbow
SAE 37ー Flare (JIC) x O-Ring Boss (ORB) 90ー Extra Long Elbow