What's the best replacement fuel line?

Kevin Hoff kwhoff at gmail.com
Mon Oct 30 23:53:27 EST 2006


That's very true but before I walk the gauntlet (the guy is pretty
crotchety!) I'd like to figure out what material to request.

--Kevin H. 

> From: Kneale Brownson [mailto:kneale at coslink.net] 
> 
> Why not try your same local shop that made up brake lines for you?
> 
> 
> At 10:38 PM 10/30/2006 -0500, Kevin Hoff wrote:
> >Thanks for the help everyone - turns out I was able to 
> salvage the old 
> >tee fitting after getting it off the car.  A local shop 
> makes line to 
> >order with the proper flanges and fittings so I simply ripped all of 
> >the hard line out of the back of the car and started from scratch.
> >
> >Now of course a fuel line is starting to leak from under one of the 
> >silver clamps...  I was going to replace the hard fuel lines with 
> >copper tubing like for an ice maker but have read somewhere that 
> >contact with copper is bad for fuel.  Any suggestions on a good, 
> >available, not terribly expensive material to use for fuel lines?



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