If it doesn't eat away at you every night while trying to fall asleep I say
leave em on.
You can always trim 1/2in of the hose off the end that will inevitably be
damaged by the inferior clamp and use a good clamp later. (assuming you left
yourself a little extra hose)

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Peter DiFalco
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 7:44 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: fuel line replacement

When I re-did my fuel tank seals a few weeks ago I just plain ran out of
good German clamps and I had to resort to using gear head cheese grater
clamps on the supply line from fuel tank to fuel pump. I'm sorry, I know I
have sinned! But Sunday is hard day to get that kind of part in a town with
no marine supply stores.

So... really... am I just wondering whether I should make the extra effort
to dump the fuel again to switch out the clamps... or just let it roll for a
year or two...? Keeping in mind I live in a dry, no-rust area.

-Peter
89 Wolfsburg

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote: