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I just replaced mine using the steel braided hose kit from "the other site"...I put the old inserts in the new hose (except for one that I found on the garage floor, later) and it's no noisier than before. The old hose had swelled up inside so much that I had to hack it into one-foot chunks to get the inserts out of it. BTW the pointy ends of the inserts go toward the pump (banjo fitting end of the hose), with the red one going in first. I re-used all the grommets from the old hose and routed the new one through the same brackets.
BTW, I don't care what the kit says, you do not want to try to cut the steel braid hose with a hacksaw. You'll be there all day. That stuff is TOUGH. An angle grinder with a cutoff wheel makes short work of it. An electric drill with a cutoff wheel would work too, but it'll be slower. Hacksaw works a treat on the old fabric braid hose, though.
Hardest part of the job, for me, was getting the fittings threaded back together on the new hose. The steel braid hose has less give. I ended up having to stop when the small portion of the fittings was still about 1/8" from fully seated, because they just wouldn't tighten any further. So far it hasn't leaked. I figure if it ever does I can tighten them up a bit more, since the hose will have compressed a bit by then.
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