Flossie
Well-Known Member
You can get a proper little pipe cutter for the nylon pipe, good for speed on a big job. You don't need one of them, use a new stanley blade and gently slice it through, what you are trying to avoid is crushing and deforming the end which will happen if you use snips.
On your new bags poke something thin , less than 6mm diameter anyway, down the collet to gauge the depth, easier with the bag off the car, mark the new bit of 6mm pipe with a marker pen to this depth. You'll see then that you've pushed the new pipe far enough in to the collet. There are 2 O rings in the bag collets and they need a good shove to get past them and home so lube them too. The push fit fittings only have 1 O ring and go in much easier. The bulge on the original air bag pipe is great for helping push it home but you probably will be cutting that off?
You may struggle getting that new pipe in and think it's there when it isn't that's why marking the pipe depth is usefull.
On your new bags poke something thin , less than 6mm diameter anyway, down the collet to gauge the depth, easier with the bag off the car, mark the new bit of 6mm pipe with a marker pen to this depth. You'll see then that you've pushed the new pipe far enough in to the collet. There are 2 O rings in the bag collets and they need a good shove to get past them and home so lube them too. The push fit fittings only have 1 O ring and go in much easier. The bulge on the original air bag pipe is great for helping push it home but you probably will be cutting that off?
You may struggle getting that new pipe in and think it's there when it isn't that's why marking the pipe depth is usefull.