Sounds like something I should look into. I assume the steel line is flexible
enough to make the necessary bends? Did you also continue the steel line
across the engine where there are currently rubber lines wrapped in
plastic sleeves? Did you have to flare or somehow "barb" the ends of the
steel to keep the rubber held on? I noticed the stupid plastic line does not
do this - it wouldn't have come loose otherwise...

On 27 May 2003 at 18:35, Steve Delanty wrote:

> Shawn wrote:
> >Thanks to all who replied with excellent suggestions - the van is back
> >home safely now, after about 20 minutes of fiddling. Turns out the rigid
> >hose leading from the fuel pump to the firewall had slipped out of the 3"
> >piece of rubber hose attached to the plastic fitting. The fitting itself
> >appears
> >ok, and given the proximity to the starter motor, I consider myself fortunate
> >this time. It seems odd that such a critical union would not use a barbed or
> >flanged connector. It appears that I could replace this section of rigid
> >plastic line with rubber fuel line, except that it may not fit through the hole
> >in the frame. Has anyone tried replacing this rigid line?
>
> I replaced my plastic fuel line with 5/16" steel line. A short section of
> rubber line to splice it at the fuel pump and another to splice it at
> the engine end.
> I did away with that stupid and dangerous plastic bulkhead connector... it's an
> accident waiting to happen. I slid a piece of rubber tubing over the steel line
> where it goes through the frame. There's room once the old line is out. I did
> both the pressure and return lines in steel, with minimal rubber line in the
> system.
>
> Steve
> '86 Westy
>

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