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. Good plan! AND a little piece of safety wire to make sure that the valve can't open unintentionally...

' What if you put a pair of steel lines that ran to the back of the truck - and had them JIC flared - then secured to the frame... A rubber hose on each end to minimize vibration (like the M1089 wrecker). Stainless steel tubing would help dissipate a lot more heat than rubber...

. Take a look at this... You buy bulk hose, then use these connectors. They are reusable rather than the "crimped" hose ends. https://www.mcmaster.com/screw-on-hose-fittings/screw-on-hose-fittings-for-hydraulic-fluid/

. Maybe a screen below it? Bolt on kind of operation with expanded metal with a piece of 1 inch (or so) welded to flat iron on all four edges?

. Seems too that a metal line would fade the heat more quickly than rubber hose. With a metal line properly anchored to the frame, heat would radiate through that connection too. The M1089 has steel lines that feed and return hydraulic fluid. Those hard lines run almost half the length of...