[s-cars] Fuel Leak Repaired - Temporarily

[Fred Munro]

Sean;

You can buy rolls of galvanized steel line at your local auto parts store.
VW uses hard plastic fuel line on some of their cars. If your area uses salt
on the roads, stainless steel line may be subject to crevice corrosion under
the rubber mounts unless you paint the lines (or use duplex stainless steel
tubing, but I don't know if it's available - duplex stainless is relatively
new to North America). Flaring stainless can also be a bit of a problem
depending on the quality of the tubing.

HTH

Fred Munro
'94 S4


-----Original Message-----
From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
[mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com]On Behalf Of Sean Douglas
Sent: January 29, 2005 3:37 PM
To: S-CAR-List at audifans.com
Subject: [s-cars] Fuel Leak Repaired - Temporarily


Thanks to all that responsed about my fuel leak. Sure enough, at every
rubber clamp, the lines are corroded. At one spot, the return line was
weeping fuel.

I cut out the bad section and spliced in a 5/16" rubber fuel line with
double clamps. Hopefully, this will last until I can source some good
quality fuel lines, the dealer wants $450 CAD!

I figure I can make them myself using either stainless steel or zinc
coated lines, anyone have a good source for bulk fuel lines?

Thanks.

Sean Douglas
1997 Audi S6//RS2-spec
1990 Audi 90 quattro 20v

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