re: Injector fuel line hose

[Joe Elliott <jee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yikes, you're right.  I feel like quite the fool, now that I look at 
two of the receipts on my bedroom floor:

BMW Store: 1 meter (3.28ft), 13 31 1 469 781 "8x13" fuel hose, $10
AutoZone: 6ft (1.83m), 240844 65152 Goodyear 5/16" FI hose, $26.94

All these years, I'd been going to the BMW dealer to get the "good 
stuff" only when I needed to make leak-free connections with OEM 
barbed hose fittings on the fuel rail, and assumed I was saving money 
by getting the locally-available 5/16" stuff (that works out to 
7.94mm, while I believe "8x13" metric stuff is actually 7.5mm OD) for 
all my other EFI work.  D'oh!  I guess I'll be stocking up on EFI 
hose at the BMW dealer from now on.  Thanks for the heads-up Bill! 
It's too bad I couldn't have picked up some dirty socks and drawn the 
conclusion from my own data a long time ago.

Joe Elliott
'82 GTV-6
'73 Opel GT

At 11:53 PM +0000 6/17/03, alfa-digest wrote:

> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:21:37 -0400
> From: "Bain, Bill" <Bill.Bain@domain.elided>
> Subject: Injector fuel line hose
>
> FWIW, Jeff Greenfield was kind enough to forward me the part number for
> BMW's 8mm x 13mm FI hose --. At $10/meter, it's cheaper
> than the "Amurican" stuff from Pep Boys.  Now if my injectors would only
> come back from Marren . . .  .
>
> Bill Bain
> AROC Atlanta
> '83 Spider (can't spit no gas right now!)
> '87 Milano (200K miles and a hoot to drive!)
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