What's the best replacement fuel line?

[Kneale Brownson]

Fuel line usually is steel.  If it's the right inside diameter, the kind of
stuff he used for the brakes should work for the fuel.

As an alternative, you can use a flexible hose product designed for
supplying high-pressure fuel.  Sometimes called fuel injector hose.  Any
good FLAPS should handle it.  Be certain to get the special hose clamps
designed for high pressue fuel line application.  Only real problem with
this stuff is it's much larger outside diameter than steel lines and won't
fit inside the clips Audi uses to hold the fuel ines.



At 11:53 PM 10/30/2006 -0500, Kevin Hoff wrote:
>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?