Fwd: FPR->Fuel rail hose

[Ken Keith]

Here's what I pulled off, and what I'll put on in the meantime:

http://www.s2forum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=47414#post47414

Thanks,

Ken

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ken Keith <auditude at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 08:00:07 -0700
Subject: re: FPR->Fuel rail hose
To: 200q20v at audifans.com
Cc: knotnook at traverse.com, brett at cloud9.net

Hi,

Well, I discovered mine is leaking too now.  Spraying right onto the
valve cover.  I noticed a brief fuel smell a couple times for the past
few days.  This morning after I left the house I smelled it again and
pulled over and had a look.  WHOA!  Looks like the clamp has loosened
or something.

Since I already have some kind of rubber hose and clamp repair, altho'
I don't know if the clamps are the right kind, I'm thinking I just
want to put the OEM piece in there.

Brett, do you have a part number for that part you ordered?

Thanks,

Ken

Kneale Brownson knotnook at traverse.com
>
At 12:47 PM 7/18/2004 -0400, auditude at cox.net wrote:
>Hello,
>
>On my car, both those lines (at the rail and at the filter) had been
>replaced by sections of rubber hose and what look to be standard hose
clamps.
>
>They make me nervous and I'd like to replace them or verify they are spec'ed
>for that type of application.
>
>I'd like to hear how sourcing the oem replacements goes, and/or about other
>robust repair alternatives.

There IS a rubberized high-pressure fuel line available in several ID
sizes.  They use special hoseclamps designed to compress reliably around a
specific OD.  FLAPS would be a source.