boost gauge help

[oxygen800r]

anyone know where i can find compression sleeves for the nylon tube for the boost gauges?
and how the hell do you not bind the tube???!?!?!?!!!?
they're freakin small and i couldn't find any at home depot etc.

[kjewer1]

Go to a NAPA type autoparts store. If you look hard enough you can find hard tubing couplers. They are soft rubber, and the hard tubing will jus tslide in. Get one side in 1/8th inch to match the boost guage tube, and the other a little larger to fit over a 5/32s or 3/16th tee, which ever size you are using on your car. Ziptie both ends. This is by far the cheapest, cleanest, safest, and easiest solution I have found for this in the last 4 years, and its still holding strong. Costs about 1 dollar. Hope that helps.

[oxygen800r]

if i'm understanding correctly, you want me to get rubber couplings that i can slide my nylon tube inside?
the fittings i have are a little different then. they work a lot like a household copper pipe. you slide the nut and compression sleeve over the tube. then you place the tube inside the fitting and screw the nut over it...well me being the dumbass i am, i overtightened both ends and destroyed the sleeves.

this is turning out to be one sick post...

[kjewer1]

You need the guage end? I'm assuming you ar elooking for a replacement "ferrule" then. Lowes has them in the drawers of you have those around. Any hardware store that stocks 1/8 compresion stuff will have it.

For the source end I would use the method I describe above.

[rysbrnr]

You could also just replace the hard nylon tubing altogether. On the back of the gauge you can replace the compression fitting end with a barbed hose end and just use one hose from the engine bay to the gauge. Drawbacks are the hose is thicker than the nylon tubing therefore harder to run up the A-pillar. At least you don't have to mess with ferrules and the almost "one time use" of the compression fitting. My Blitz boost gauge came with the barbed fitting and the rubber hose fit well in my 1g and my old 2g GSX A-pillar.