FUEL LINE REPLACEMENT - ANY TIPS ?, BRITTLE FUEL LINES Options

[EMMY 914]

I just turned the key. It has been about 18 months. Gas leak. Fuel lines are brittle where they attach to rubber in engine compartment.

Any suggestions to make replacing these lines from the tank back ?
What type of lines to use?

I am hoping to drive it for 2 more years when 2 of my college students have left my payroll. Then restore it.

This is a 1975 2.0 FI

Thank you and God Bless,

Emmy

[Kirmizi]

Do a search for stainless steel fuel lines.
There's a couple vendors who sell them and they're well worth the price.
I'd also suggest replacing the old rubber lines also "while you're in there"...

[bdstone914]

Do a search for stainless steel fuel lines.
There's a couple vendors who sell them and they're well worth the price.
I'd also suggest replacing the old rubber lines also "while you're in there"...

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Start at the tank and replace them all the way to the injectors or carbs. Too many of they cars have burned up from fuel fires. If the lines are brittle in the engine compartment they are probably not much better in the tunnel.

Bruce

[Cap'n Krusty]

Do a search for stainless steel fuel lines.
There's a couple vendors who sell them and they're well worth the price.
I'd also suggest replacing the old rubber lines also "while you're in there"...

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Start at the tank and replace them all the way to the injectors or carbs. Too many of they cars have burned up from fuel fires. If the lines are brittle in the engine compartment they are probably not much better in the tunnel.

Bruce

The last part of your final sentence is NOT true. The lines in the tunnel are generally unaffected by heat and the environment because, well, they're in the tunnel. In fact, we see few plastic fuel line failures not induced by the hand of man on either of the lines going through the interior. The 2 lines going from the area of the pump to the engine compartment are somewhat more problematic, but they still have a pretty good track record. Furthermore, the lines in a MY '75 are the black Teclamit version, designed to take full fuel system pressure, and made of a MUCH tougher and more weather resistant material, the same stuff used with CIS which runs at up to 80 PSI, and is found on all manner of K-jetronic equipped cars. Failures of this line are virtually unheard of, unless of course that pesky "hand of man" comes on the scene ...............

Oh, and the diameter is different, too.

The Cap'n