TeriAnn,
I have a little experience with braided stainless steel lines I used as
oil lines on my Norton motorcycle (higher pressure 60-90 psi, move
viscious fluid). Hose clamps by themselves would not compress the
teflon(?) liner inside the braid. I used barbed fittings with wire type
hose clamps to clamp between the ridges on the barbed fittings. That
worked. I don't believe you will get enough even pressure on the outside
of the braid with a hose clamp to eliminate the leak. Check with you
local hydraulic supplier for the correct fittings; you may want to skip
the steel braid in your fuel line. Please keep me informed, as I like
the idea of SS Braid for fuel lines; I am just apprehensive about being
able to do it cost effectively.
Jack Brooks
Hillsdale, New Jersey
1960 TR3-A T69032L
'74 Norton Commando Roadster
On Sun, 20 Oct 1996 17:22:19 -0700 twakeman@scruznet.com (TeriAnn
Wakeman) writes:
>You know the rebuild of the once and future TR3 is almost done when I
>decide to add a gallon of petrol to the fuel tank. last weekend I
>removed
>the plugs and turned the engine over on the starter motor until I had
>oil
>pressure to the guage. 50 pounds were indicated. I discovered that
>my old
>solenoid was bad. I replaced that this weekend. This afternoon, I
>poured
>a gallon of petrol into the fuel tank. I had thoughts of actually
>trying
>to fire up the engine.
>
>Well, when I went around to the front to pump up the fuel, I
>discovered
>that it was running out of the connectors connecting the steel hoses
>to the
>pump. Just for the fun of it, I hand pumped some fuel up to the
>DCOEs,only to see fuel spraying out the connections. Well back to the
>drawing board.
>
>I'm using my old fuel pump off the TR3. The steel lines are new and
>are
>made of the standard steel lines you get at the auto parts sore. I
>found a
>set of compression connectors also at the auto parts store. I was a
>bit
>bothered by the fact that they screw all the way in. I guess they are
>the
>wrong ones.
>
>I used stainless steel braided fuel hose that I clamped to the steel
>line
>and to the slip on fuel fittings on the DCOEs. I used the smallest
>size
>two wire hose clamp. I guess the ID of the braided cable is just a
>little
>too large for the fittings :*0
>
>So assuming this thing uses standard steel fuel lines, does anyone
>know
>where I can get the PROPER compression fittings (2 for the pump, one
>forthe
>tank)???
>
>One step forward three steps back
>
>TeriAnn
>
>twakeman@scruznet.com
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