Re: [ihc] darn gas

["Ryan Moore" <baradium@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Dan Nees" <cookiedan@domain.elided>
To: "IHC Digest" <ihc@domain.elided>; "Old Ihc List"
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Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 16:37
Subject: [ihc] darn gas


> Reapers,
>
>    Yesterday, on the way to work, I was rocketing down the snow covered
> highway doing around 50 or so and started loosing power  like it was out
of
> gas. I knew I had a full tank of gas, so I figured it was a filter
problem,
> but; I was hoping to make it to the train station and into work. That way
I
> could worry about it after work.
>
>    Well, you know that was not to be. I died on the way UP an overpass. In
> the dark.
>
>    Naturally, my Mag light was in my garage and my spare filter elements
> were also in the garage.
>
>    I called my dad to bring me a light, but; by the time he got there it
was
> light. I managed to get the truck to start, after 40 minutes of sitting on
> the bridge, and made it to the bottom of the bridge. Just as I was
reaching
> into the engine to look at my glass filter, my dad pulled up. I grasped
the
> filter in my hand and started to pull it up a bit when a plumb of gas spew
> out of the fuel line. I quickly shut off the truck and started to check
the
> rest of the line. All six clamp points has cracks and splits in them and
you
> could see the hard lines through them.
>
>     Fortunantly, I had a nice long, albeit frozen, piece of fuel line in
the
> tool box. My dad threw it under the heater in his car while I removed the
> old one.
>
>    After replacing the entire section, from nylone line to carb, I had no
> more problems with the truck and I got to work 1 hour late.
>
>    Now, the old fuel lines were not that terrible old, however; they do
run
> from the nylon line on the fender skirt, up past the exaust manifold, over
> the valve cover, then into the carb. This is alot of heat exposure. What
> options are there, other than running steel lines from the fender skirt to
> the carb? Stainless braided lines? AN lines? I know that is what Richard
> would recommend. Any other thoughts?
>
>
>
> Dan Nees
>
> cookiedan@domain.elided
>

I've had problems with rubber fuel line relatively recently (a good couple
months ago now) too, specifically the NAPA brand (it's Gates IIRC).  The
thing is, the hose itself wasn't going bad over the whole thing... it'd just
get a nasty split in it.  No cracking, but it's like there is a seam along
one side of the hose that starts to give way.  If it happens again I'll be
having a long talk with the local NAPA guys.  Hopefully I just got some of a
bad batch the first time.

Are you running an electric fuel pump?  I'd avoid that exhaust manifold like
the plague...

Maybe metal line until you get clear of the major heat sources and then go
back to rubber line from there out?  Maybe run the metal out past the
exhaust and then rubber to the nylon stuff.

BTW, does anyone know where to get that nylon line at?

-Ryan