just a thought as I just got done working on my rear hard lines and making my own braided hoses...
My rear hard lines developed a leak requiring replacement. So as I was replacing the hard lines I decided to replace the rubber flex hoses with braided hoses.
Now my 98.5 SVT had female hard line fittings in the rear and male hard line fittings in the front. While I redid my hard lines I made the rear hard line fittings now male ones.
Then I decided to make my own flex hoses from Earl's products. I bought 6ft of clear PVC coated -3 teflon lines braided hose #6000031, (4) -3 M10x1.0 female concave flare hose fittings #641103 and (4) -3 M10x1.0 male convex flare #640303. Everything was bought from ANPlumbing.com as the local Parker Store didn't have everything in stock, total was about $80 plus shipping.
Assembly was pretty straight forward. A bit different than assembling rubber/SS braided hose for oil lines and such but overall it wasn't bad. I just followed the instructional video they have on their site.
I figure if these ever start to leak that I can just pull everything apart, buy new olives and hose and remake the hoses for probably $25-30.
Here are some pictures...
now, for those of you with the female fittings in the back instead of all male fittings on the hard lines you could just buy 6 male hose ends and 2 female hose ends and make your hoses accordingly. The ONLY down side I see with doing it that way is you would have to zip tie (or otherwise fix into place) the hard line/flex hose union to the bracket as I don't think you'll be able to use the spring clip to hold it in place like you can with the female hose ends, this is mostly why I decided to change my rear hard line fittings to male when I redid my rear hard lines (which you can see I routed differently than stock making gas tank removal not required).
Also, for the rubber bushings that hold the flex hose to the strut, I use a knife and carefully cut a slit in it so I could remove it from the original hose and install it on the new hose. This work just fine.
I just wanted to share another way of doing the braided hoses. Not knocking any of the pre-made kits, I just like making my own if I can and Earl's products are good quality.