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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.