Brian,
You are on the right track, but that is the wrong line. Go to a small
engine repair place (someone that fixes lawnmowers and leaf blowers and the
like) and you can get the correct stuff. Gasoline attacks most of the fuel
lines that are made for nitromethane and castor oil based fuels.
Sid
(been fooling around with model airplanes since about 1975 or so....)
>From: "Brian St. Jacques" <brian@varatouch.com>
>Reply-To: "Brian St. Jacques" <brian@varatouch.com>
>To: "Datsun-Roadsters" <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Fuel Line Replacement
>Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 14:19:18 -0700
>
>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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Sidney Raper
1964 1500
1967 SRL311 00060
1967 SRL311 00076
Jacksonville Florida
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