Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:25:01 -0500
Reply-To: T Collins <tonycollin@GMAIL.COM>
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From: T Collins <tonycollin@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Was fuel leak? Now: appropriate route for fuel lines
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Niel i love to see picture of your engine bay.... I really dont like
running my lines under the runners.
Thanks,
Tony
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 2:59 PM, neil n <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:
> I may get flack for this as it's not OEM and I ain't no mechanic but.....
>
> In deleting that plastic transition, I massaged things so the send and
> return hoses are located roughly mid point at the firewall. I made a
> stainless steel bracket for each hose, and used a rubber strap like
> this (image):
> http://www.elecdirect.com/images/pageheaders/RubberInsulatedCableClamps.jpg
> to hold each hose to each new bracket.
>
> I didn't like that the OEM sleeves showed signs of heat damage so
> routed the new hoses more or less on top of the intake runners.
> "Tencentlife" aka Chris Corkin on thesamba does this on his WBX
> rebuilds.
>
> NOT saying what I did is correct, but now the fuel hoses don't contact
> the block, the metal "T" is strapped to the regulator, and the send
> hose is further away from the B+ connection at starter. (kind of moot
> since the plastic transition is deleted) Parts of hose that may rub
> are sleeved with cut up bits of the OEM material and I used small bits
> of split new hose to protect the hose(s) from the cable straps used to
> secure them to the intake runners.
>
> Neil.
>
> On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 12:23 PM, T Collins <tonycollin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I figure I separate this from the previous tread since I think the
> question
> > I'm asking has morphed far to much from what the op was asking.
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: *T Collins*
> > Date: Friday, February 1, 2013
> > Subject: Does this look like a fuel leak?
> > To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@turbovans.com>
> > Cc: "vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com" <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
> >
> >
> > So here is my question for all of you that have fully replaced the fuel
> > lines. How did you all arrange the lines after you replace them?
>
>
> --
> Neil n
>
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