I happened across some Tygon brand tubing of the right size and it is the fuel
resistant variety and very flexible. Bought 25 foot for 5.00 on sale at the
local plastics supply while looking for something else.
"Brian St. Jacques" wrote:
> In the process of rebuilding my carbs and gathering all of the parts
> together, I was quite shocked to see the cost of a replacement fuel line to
> go from the float bowl to the nozzle on the carb. Knowing this had to be
> heat resistant, gasoline tolerant, and very flexible to allow the choke to
> work right, I started racking my brain for another source of the same type
> of line where it may be sold in larger quantity for a reduced price, or
> another material to use. Well, I was tinkering around with my gas powered RC
> car and noticed the fuel line...extremely flexible and routed right next to
> the rather hot cylinder head...but a little too small to fit on the SU's. At
> the local hobby shop they had some bigger stuff for the model airplane
> engines. Advertised as silicone line, formulated specifically to carry fuel,
> resist heat, and resist pinhole leaks. I picked up a package of 3 feet for
> $3. The RC engines usually run on a nitro methane mix fuel, so I read
> everything looking for warnings etc. to see if it was incompatible with
> regular gasoline, but it is just labeled as fuel line with nothing specific
> mentioned about the type of fuel. So hopefully this will be a viable
> replacement for the fuel line on the SU's. Does anyone have any experience
> or knowledge about using this type of line for this application?
>
> Brian
> '68 1600
>
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