[Shop-talk] Auto gas line repair

[Doug Braun]

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.

Fortunately it never happened to me...

Doug

--- On Fri, 1/9/09, Randall <tr3driver at ca.rr.com> wrote:
From: Randall <tr3driver at ca.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Auto gas line repair
To: shop-talk at autox.team.net
Date: Friday, January 9, 2009, 7:55 PM

> Can I cut out the leaking section and use rubber
> fuel
> injection hose to replace it?

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 known to keep driving a Triumph that would drip liquid
fuel onto a glowing exhaust manifold, so YMMV <G>