The 85 to 87 Golf II and Jetta had CIS and these lines are longer than the Golf I lines - also the Audi 5000 had longer lines as well. This all reminds me of the 1980 Rabbit Pickup I had with a CIS 2.0L engine - what a simple and beautiful fuel injection system! David Marshall http://www.hasenwerk.ca Box 4153, Quesnel BC, Canada V2J 3J2 On Sat, March 22, 2008 12:29, craig cowan wrote: > Hello. In my attempt to pass on my new mechanical skills and help another > vanagon owner, I have been perplexed. A gentelman has just moved to town > from Washington (to Pittsburgh PA), with an '82 canadian model diesel > westy, > that was converted to an inline 4 (Maybe a rabbit engine?) supposedly by > Smallcar Performance quite a few years back. Well this guy has no > mechanical > knowledge, he'll hopefully be joining the vanagon mailing list soon > enough, > but for now....his vanagon is "dead". > Somewhere along his move (He mentioned colorado) he realised that his fuel > lines were wearing through... > It turns out that the CIS (Or CIS-E?) fuel injection system that was used > mounts the fuel distribution block on the right wall of the engine > compartment, meaning there are solid (as in, brake line) fuel lines going > from the distribution block to the injectors way over on the left. The > lines > run alongside eachother, and right over the alternator. Long story short, > the lines have worn on the alternator and now leak fuel, so he doesn't > plan > on driving it (Good!). Today we spent our day trying to figure out > replacement lines.... and here is the problem... > We need the banjo fittings on one end, and the fuel injectior connectors > on > the other, since our clearly custom lines are worn through, we thought of > using Rabbit GTI lines. So, we got a set of the flexible stainless steel > GTI > lines, and they are much to short (Even the longest). What we need, is a > flexible line with the right connectors on each end, thats about 54inches > long. > > Those of you that have CIS Inine 4's in your Vanagons, what did you do > about > the lines? We can't even find a place to get something like this made, let > alone the fittings themselves. Due to the high pressure of CIS, we cannot > just "cut out" the center/worn through section of our custom steel lines, > and hoseclamp (Fuel injection clamp) on highpressure fuel line, we're told > it will just blow right off. > > Does anyone have any ideas as to how to redeem this problem, and get > custom > length CIS fuel lines, either soft (Preferably) or Hard (Steel) lines? > > Thanks again! > -Craig > '85GL > |
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