Re: quattro-digest V4 #1817

[Ed Armstrong <earmstrong@CSC.NOAA.GOV>]

At 10:08 AM 2/25/98 -0500, you wrote:
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>Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 07:54:11 -0500
>From: glen powell <gpowell@acacianet.com>
>Subject: wanted: 4KQ fuel line
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>Subject vehicle: 84 4KQ race car
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>Technical problem: rotten fool line at output of fool filter
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>Logistical problem: fool line on 3 month backorder from Audi 
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>Filter requires relatively non-standard fitting on end of metal fool line,
a reverse
>or bulb flare. There is a fitting that adapts the copper sealing washer
style interface
>on the filter to the reverse flare. Regular flares I can do, but I hear
that reverse flares
>cannot be done in the field, the line has to be built that way. It is this
line that is
>rotten and is presently unavailable. Some type of adapter that could
connect the filter
>to a standard flare would work, if I could find something like this.
>
>Anyone solve this problem?
>Anyone have this fool line on a pahts cah anywhere that they would be
>willing to sell? I only need enough of this line to reach to where the
line meets
>the underside of the bottom of the passenger compartment portion of the
floorpan
>in the rear, not all the way to the fool distributor.
>
>Any other suggestions or hints welcome.
>
>TIA,
>
>- -glen


I repaired a damaged fuel line (damaged by removing the fuel filter) near
the fuel filter flare by getting a small piece from a wrecker (off a VW
Rabbit I believe) and splicing it in  with a compression fitting. 

Worked excellent. However I always thought about the possiblity that this
would make my car more susceptible to a large fuel leak in the event of an
accident in the rear....this work was done on an Audi 4000s.
   
	-- ed