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1. [Shop-talk] Auto gas line repair (score: 1): Author: "Bill Gingerich" <bill@gingerich.us>; Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:49:12 -0600; My '93 Escort wagon has developed a gas leak in the line that runs from the tank to the engine. I've noticed a gas smell around the car the last few days, and there was small puddle under the drivers; /html/shop-talk/2009-01/msg00058.html (8,413 bytes)
2. Re: [Shop-talk] Auto gas line repair (score: 1): Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>; Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:55:53 -0800; IMO, that will work. Probably safer to replace the whole line with metal but that should be good enough. Worst case, it will leak again and you'll be back where you are today. But then I've been kno; /html/shop-talk/2009-01/msg00059.html (7,901 bytes)
3. Re: [Shop-talk] Auto gas line repair (score: 1): Author: Doug Braun <doug@dougbraun.com>; Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:57:43 -0800 (PST); do you mean a puddle on the garage floor, or a puddle inside the car? Is the car injected or carbeurated? Most fuel-injected cars have the pump in the gas tank, and the fuel line has 40 or so pounds; /html/shop-talk/2009-01/msg00060.html (8,722 bytes)
4. Re: [Shop-talk] Auto gas line repair (score: 1): Author: Doug Braun <doug@dougbraun.com>; Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 17:00:19 -0800 (PST); Triumph Spitfires have a short section of rubber line where the fuel line exits out the bottom of the trunk. If that bit rots out, the entire contents of the gas tank can drain out onto the floor. Fo; /html/shop-talk/2009-01/msg00061.html (8,437 bytes)
5. Re: [Shop-talk] Auto gas line repair (score: 1): Author: "Bill Gingerich" <bill@gingerich.us>; Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 19:11:12 -0600; Puddle is on the ground. Car is FI. Yes, the pump is in the tank. I understand the higher pressures than the carbureted versions. Hence the question. If it was my Spitfire, I'd just buy rubber fuel; /html/shop-talk/2009-01/msg00062.html (9,257 bytes)
6. Re: [Shop-talk] Auto gas line repair (score: 1): Author: John Miller <jem@milleredp.com>; Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:22:29 -0800; Most Fords of that vintage have plastic fuel lines, the fix I'm acquainted with for them involves pushing barbed fittings into the line (sometimes accompanied by a little heat-gun persuasion.) John.; /html/shop-talk/2009-01/msg00063.html (8,041 bytes)
7. Re: [Shop-talk] Auto gas line repair (score: 1): Author: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>; Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 20:09:37 -0600; If it's steel, an alternative source of new, very formable metal line (as opposed paying the dealer a zillion dollars for the factory part) would be standard hydraulic tubing. Yes, it does come in la; /html/shop-talk/2009-01/msg00064.html (8,439 bytes)
8. Re: [Shop-talk] Auto gas line repair (score: 1): Author: Pat Horne <pat@hornesystemstx.com>; Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:19:18 -0600; I'm with Randall, with one addition. Use a flaring tool and put a small flare on the end of the line so the hose won't slide off. If you have a double flare tool, all the better, just put the bulge i; /html/shop-talk/2009-01/msg00065.html (9,460 bytes)
9. Re: [Shop-talk] Auto gas line repair (score: 1): Author: Richard Beels <rbeels@yahoo.com>; Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:41:10 -0500; I used to be a quattro guy and Audi attached their hard fuel lines with these big rubberized clamps that collected moisture and routinely rotted away the fuel lines at year 15 or so for us lucky ones; /html/shop-talk/2009-01/msg00069.html (9,143 bytes)
10. Re: [Shop-talk] Auto gas line repair (score: 1): Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>; Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:11:33 -0800; My 1970 Audi had plastic line from the tank to the engine. After driving through mixed snow, sand and gravel that was routinely thrown across driveways by the snow plow, the line eventually abraded; /html/shop-talk/2009-01/msg00075.html (8,253 bytes)
11. Re: [Shop-talk] Auto gas line repair (score: 1): Author: John Miller <jem@milleredp.com>; Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:21:47 -0800; Saab solved that problem on the 99s and ur-900s - the plastic fuel lines ran inside the car, under the back seat and up the left-side rocker panel. On my '81 900T the lines ran right next to the rear; /html/shop-talk/2009-01/msg00080.html (8,394 bytes)
12. Re: [Shop-talk] Auto gas line repair (score: 1): Author: scott.hall@comcast.net; Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:13:46 +0000 (UTC); what he said. I drove a '68 mustang around for several years with a section of rubber hose spliced into the metal line under the driver's seat after a jacking mishap. I'd give it a shot, even with an; /html/shop-talk/2009-01/msg00081.html (8,854 bytes)
13. Re: [Shop-talk] Auto gas line repair (score: 1): Author: "Jack Brooks" <jibjib@att.net>; Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:57:28 -0800; I didn't have a flare tool, but I did have a Mig welder, so I added a bit of a weld circumferentially near the end of the pipe. It's a smooth hump and the clamp us upstream of the weld. I believe it'; /html/shop-talk/2009-01/msg00111.html (8,132 bytes)

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