Well, they do, kinda.

A Subaru motor comes with steel fuel lines on the motor, doing away with yet
another cheesy WBX design "solution".  :)

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 7:43 PM, pdooley <psdooley@verizon.net> wrote:

> Yep, I wouldn't feel completely safe even with all new fuel lines if I had
> the original plastic fuel rails in my van.
> My van is an 85, so that would make those plastic bits 23 years old.
>
> I don't run a WBX anyway, so it's not a concern for me.
>
> Too bad somebody hasn't made aluminum replacements like Bahnbrenner does
> for
> inline watercooled VW motors.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> John Anderson
> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 9:07 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: sad engine fire victim, 88 Wolfy
>
> I'll chime in with the rest as I recently had the opportunity to replace
> the
> CIS lines in my 35k mile '78 Scirocco.  They go bad from age, anywhere in
> the engine compartment, I cut a section of one apart and time/gas had
> really
> taken it's toll on the inside of the lines.  Now that is a 30 year old
> line
> but still, as I've had the new ones for 10 years I should have done it 10
> years ago.  To me even 15 years is probably long enough on a CIS line.  On
> cloth braided or smooth bus FI lines, I never let them go more than 5
> years,
> and replace them all including the ones on the injectors when a van is new
> to me; like someone else said, just routine maintainence.  On waterboxers
> another real concern that I don't know the absolute life guess on is the
> plastic distribution bits that make the ring main, like that bulkhead
> fitting on the firewall (scary how old they likely get, has anyone ever
> replaced theirs?) and the black bits of fuel rail that feed the injectors,
> the early Digijet
>  ones with steel bands on the ends can have the band rust and end plug pop
> out but even the stainless banded ones can/will eventually crack.  Also
> the
> plastic fuel supply line from the pump up to the ring itself should likely
> be replaced.  I think all of those bits are suspect on any Vanagon now
> days.
>

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Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
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