

| Subject: | Re: fuel tank vent lines |
| From: | David Beierl |
| Date: | Wed, 17 Oct 2012 04:41:48 -0400 |
At 11:37 AM 10/16/2012, Mike Riley wrote: >any body replace the fuel lines to the overflow tanks without >removing the tank. >I have leaking lines but nothing else. Do you mean the short lengths of vacuum hose connecting the plastic lines to the fenderwell tank nipples? If so, yes, several times. >any recommendation for clamps available from a common local flaps, Whatever small skinny screw-type hose clamps they have. I think I've typically gotten the ones Ken Wilford sells which are quite narrow. You don't need a lot of clamping force and you do want to minimize tightening effort in case the nipples have gotten brittle. Yours, David ps - Eudora (my mailer program) thinks that my saying "nipples" twice in one message is scandalous. Now I've made it thrice, so it will probably have a hissy. It's for little moments like these that I leave the "mood warning" feature turned on...for some reason I enjoy pulling the wings off software.
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