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I keep saying this over and over
When replacing short sections of rubber for fuel hoses, get stuff
rated for Fuel injection systems. It will withstand todays gas formulas
much better. Even if its only 4-7 psi, get the stuff.
--
Paul Holmgren
2 57 300-C's in Indy
Hoosier Corps #L6
A generation which ignores history
has no past -- and no future.
- Robert
A. Heinlein
-------------- Original message from Eastern Sierra Adjustment Services <esierraadj@xxxxxxxxxxx>: --------------
> Went to exercise H. today, and thought that his recently overhauled fuel
> pump might
> be going bad, as it felt like a carburetor accelerator-pump
> hesitation, or trannie
> slippage was making him not want to move out, from a stop (altho the
> trannie engages
> immediately from gear to gear, and the 2.76 rear end also makes for a
> lethargic start-up,
> in Drive).
>
> Pulled into mi oficina's parking lot, popped the hood, played with the
> accelerator linkage,
> and was startled to see gas spraying (almost pouring) out from under the
> short rubber fuel line
> that connects the metal gas-line, at the passenger's side inner fender
> 'apron', to the fuel
> pump's inlet connection.
>
> I say 'startled', as that line is only a couple-few years old, nothing
> traumatic had happened
> to the car, in the intervening years, to cause the MULTIPLE crackings
> which had developed in it,
> and CA gas (our local brew, anyway) is not supposed/advertised as having
> any/much alkie in
> it, AND, that fuel line was supposed to be modern/alkie-resistant.
>
> Anyway, as I am universally beloved in this burg, a local shop gave
> me a free sample of their
> fuel line stash, and their mechanic told me, that on his mid-60's
> Galaxie (!), he replaces 'that'
> section of fuel line on an annual basis!
>
> So, this is an easy/simple maintenance chore that I recommend be
> performed asap, before you
> become stranded on the side of the road.
>
> Neil Vedder
>
>
>
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