Friday 22 May 2015

Fuel lines Part 2

Now the fuel lines are in situ I can my attention to connecting the front of the lines onto the swirl pot.

This is achieved via rubber fuel hose which is jubilee clipped between the plastic fuel lines and the swirl pot.

Cut the fuel line to your desired length, insert some brass collars to re-enforce the end of the fuel line where the rubber hose will insert onto and apply a jubilee clip to the rubber hose/plastic fuel line as well as one at the end where it connects to the swirl pot (remember to orientate the jubilee clip so it is accessible from above)

At the moment, I have kept the rubber fuel hose probably longer than needed, subject to space I may revisit this later in the build and adjust accordingly, being a fully paid up member of the school of measure twice cut once - we generally learn the hard way with these details!

I also want to get a plastic cradle / cable tie riveted to the driver side transmission tunnel to provide a further anchor point for the fuel line as it drops down from the brake line.




**update

As alluded to earlier, a change of plan with the hose routing and as usual the answer is obvious! - I have re-routed the top pipe to nearer the brake line thus splitting the red/black fuel lines higher up. A fixing is still needed for the red fuel line but overall more happy with this arrangement (probably still need to shorten the other fuel hose at some point..)








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