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BobbyD
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On Tuesday we drove up to Brunswick Maine (250 miles) to visit Rick & Teena Patton and to do a little work on my car for a fuel line project that Rick is toying with. One of the many nice things at Rick's house is a 14,000 lb capacity 4 post lift! To the best of my recollection I've never seen my car on a lift, let alone have the chance to work on it while standing up! However when working under a car on a lift......wear a hat, bend over when you walk around and never stand up too soon while still moving! CLUNK.....Bob...you alright?...Clunk Clunk.....Bob..... you hit your head again!! More brain cells fell out Wednesday due to the pounding my head took. I did discover how nicely the whole tee shirt section and TA frame section had been repaired by a PO.
Here's my fuel filter coming our of the shut off valve below the tank. Here we used a short section of copper alloy fuel line to join up with the pump. The arrow points to the return line which uses the old main steel line. It's all 3/8" from the tank to the regulator.
This is the pressure side of the pump that connects to the nylon line going up over the tee shirt. I didn't realize that high pressure nylon line is what's used in modern cars and is impervious to the bad stuff in gas. It's also way less expensive then copper alloy or steel.
This is a barbed connector that joined the nylon line to the short rubber hose pieces at the pump.
We were going to run the nylon line directly to the regulator but Rick has some 3/8" copper alloy line that we used with the nylon line. The red arrow indicates gas flow to the regulator. The compression fitting is a metal to nylon fitting. The green arrow is 5/16" return line from the regulator to the old TR6 steel fuel line. It hooked up on the side rail below the oil filter with a similar compression filter. This picture is on the cross piece under the engine where the brake line crosses over.
And here's the new regulator complete with an oil filled fuel pressure gauge. You can even see the oil bubble in the face of the gauge. These oil filled ones are very accurate. We have it set at 13 PSI for the injectors.
So if you're doing new fuel lines, high pressure nylon is an excellent options: it's very easy to work with, can do about a 4" sweeping bend and isn't that expensive.
Here's my fuel filter coming our of the shut off valve below the tank. Here we used a short section of copper alloy fuel line to join up with the pump. The arrow points to the return line which uses the old main steel line. It's all 3/8" from the tank to the regulator.
This is the pressure side of the pump that connects to the nylon line going up over the tee shirt. I didn't realize that high pressure nylon line is what's used in modern cars and is impervious to the bad stuff in gas. It's also way less expensive then copper alloy or steel.
This is a barbed connector that joined the nylon line to the short rubber hose pieces at the pump.
We were going to run the nylon line directly to the regulator but Rick has some 3/8" copper alloy line that we used with the nylon line. The red arrow indicates gas flow to the regulator. The compression fitting is a metal to nylon fitting. The green arrow is 5/16" return line from the regulator to the old TR6 steel fuel line. It hooked up on the side rail below the oil filter with a similar compression filter. This picture is on the cross piece under the engine where the brake line crosses over.
And here's the new regulator complete with an oil filled fuel pressure gauge. You can even see the oil bubble in the face of the gauge. These oil filled ones are very accurate. We have it set at 13 PSI for the injectors.
So if you're doing new fuel lines, high pressure nylon is an excellent options: it's very easy to work with, can do about a 4" sweeping bend and isn't that expensive.
