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Damaged Fuel Line. Replacement/repair questions
http://www.parker.com/hpd/products/search/detail.asp?catdesc=221FR
The quick and dirty of it's here:
"Construction: Inner tube of oil resistant Nitrile synthetic rubber, an insulation layer, a high
tensile steel wire braid reinforcement and an oil and weather resistant, blue, "PKR" synthetic
rubber cover."
So there! Mwaaaahahahaha!!!
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Ron
--- L F <rocco16v@netzero.net> wrote:
> Pat,
> For the record, I don't think any lines have the braid on the inside.
> The stainless braid won't hold liquids......
>
> Larry
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ron Pieper
> To: Brian McGarvey ; Scirocco
> Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 1:48 PM
> Subject: Re: Damaged Fuel Line. Replacement/repair questions
>
>
> OK...for the record, I think braided stainless line sucks big ass. I mean the kind with the
> braid
> on the outside, not the inside (where it belongs).
>
> One good way (of many) to fix this is to loosen the line from the car, cut the damaged
> section,
> slip on Parker 5BX nuts and 5tx ferrules, and flare the ends (these are JIC 37* flare nuts,
> for
> our intents and purposes the same as the insanely priced AN fittings). That line is 8mm OD
> and
> Parker specs those pieces as OK for use on 8mm and 5/16".
>
> Then get two 6-5 male-male adapter unions (Parker 6-5HTX). Have a hard line or hose (use
> Parker
> 221FR - the steel braid is on the inside) made up with the correct -6 female swivel ends
> 10626-6-6.
>
> It's all in here: http://www.parker.com/tfd/cat/pdffiles/C-Triple-Lok.pdf
>
> That's one way. An easy way since you have the P/Ns, but hard if you don't have a Parker
> store
> nearby.
>
> Others will just slip 5/16 fuel hose over the ends of the cut line and hose clamp it. Good
> luck.
>
> Ron
>
>
>
>
>
> --- Brian McGarvey <brianm@earendel.org> wrote:
> > http://www.racerpartswholesale.com/aero.htm
> > brian
> >
> > On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Scirocco wrote:
> >
> > > Fellow Sciroccans,
> > >
> > > The problem: I noticed a partially crushed fuel line on my 1980 that runs
> > > near the jack point on the right side. (Apparently VW finally did away with
> > > this routing on the 1981). What are my options to repair or replace the
> > > damaged fuel line? I know this is a high pressure system (70 psi?).
> > >
> > > So far the only available options I see are:
> > >
> > > 1) I will need to pick and pull the whole delivery system from the junkyard
> > > ( least desirable option).
> > >
> > > 2) go with a repair if possible, ( I did this once with a automatic
> > > transmission line). Compression fitting I think?
> > >
> > > 3) find a aftermarket high pressure fuel line product I can adapt to the MK1
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any experience with this problem?
> > >
> > > Cheers!
> > > Guido
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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