Copper Nickel Hard Line review

[dalspaugh]

Since I'm trying to replace most of the hardlines with Copper Nickel line, I figure I should share my results with Cheaper vs. More expensive Stuff. Will fill in some more details below when I get it.

5/16" - Fuel Line
$$$ - $107+ a roll - Federal Hill - measured wall thickness of .030", website says .028" - labeled to meet SAE J1650 (The standard for seamless copper/nickel hydraulic BRAKE line)
$$ - $66+ a roll - Bel-Metric - Same wall thickness as above (from other PP User)
$ - $44+ a roll - Amazon (AGS) - measured wall thickness of .025" - no printed specification on the line!

3/16" - Brake Line
$$$ - $60+ - Federal Hill - labeled to meet SAE J1650 (See above)
$$ - $38+ - Bel Metric - Not ordered yet
$ - $28+ - Amazon (AGS) - Not ordered yet

I don't necessarily plan on ordering all these, so if someone has some laying around and wants to measure the wall thickness (of a clean cut!), please do and I'll put it here.

Picture of 5/16 showing the difference between the Federal Hill stuff vs. the Amazon (AGS) stuff

[dana]

I ran that stuff in 5/16 for the fuel lines on my 90, and i was very happy with it. Got it for $70 a roll on ebay.

I found it to be nearly as workable as steel, and supposed to never corrode.

[dalspaugh]

updated some of the specifics and links now that the federal Hill website is working again.

I used the Fed Hill stuff to do the fuel lines in my 90. It is really nice to work with.

Dana, any chance you have a link to the stuff on ebay? could you take a wall thickness measurement?

[dana]

here is what I used. I can measure wall thickness after the weekend.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/261574352224?_t ... EBIDX%3AIT