At 11:28 5/4/99 -0600, Ken Wyatt wrote: >Hi Volks, > > >Today, I noticed a small seep again. When I replaced my lines last years >I used 1/4 inch 300 PSI fuel line from the FLEHOH (Friendly Local EVCO >House of Hose). The list recently has been mentioning 7 mm line as the >line to use. A simple conversion of 1/4 inch to mm gives 6.35 mm. So the >1/4 inch line is not too big but actually smaller than 7 mm so I should >not be leaking due to a larger line. (I am unsure what the Inner diameter is).
Ken, I strongly suspect that the 1/4" line you're using has a larger I.D. than the 7mm, so it's too loose a fit on the hose barbs. It wouldn't be the first time that US standards differed from metric <g>. Also, of course, if you didn't pay $2+(US) a foot then it's almost surely not the right stuff. I bet someone here could tell you the I.D. of the 7mm hose... d David Beierl - dbeierl@ibm.net |
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