Emergency!!! A fuel line is leaking pretty bad and I havearace pretty s...

[JShadzi at aol.com]

Cool, well, off the top of my head, figure a flat piece of sheetmetal, say 16 gauge, 1" wide and about 1.5" long, 1/2" hole in one end, 7mm hole in the other end.  The small hole is secured under the plastic nut, and you thread in a hose clamp through the 1/2" hole which also captures the braided hose, tighten up the clamp, wala, low profile to boot.  Then you take some more sheetmetal and cover the hose under exposed areas that could come in contact with a road obstruction, especially the part right where it comes down past the front subframe underneath the body there.

HTH,
Javad

>> Ya, the factory makes these little plastic 6mm nuts (10mm nut body) that thread right onto those snubs, you can see one in this pic here (bottom left hand corner of pic):
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>> http://www.80tq.com/images/fp_gauge.JPG
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>cool, I've got a few of those.  I'll have to do some head scratching on
>this since I don't want the fuel lines to drape down too low (-6 hose is
>pretty thick) plus I will want to be sure that it is clamped really well
>to those mounts.  I may end up going back to using the stock clamps but
>with stainless tubing (my stock fuel lines were removed mostly due to
>rust) but then again it would be a shame not to use all of the -6 hose I
>already have.
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>Later
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>-Marc
>87' 4ktq
>88' 90q
>www.mswanson.com/audi
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