Fuel line kink, Under the tank Options

[trojanhorsepower]

Hi All,
Strange question. The rubber fuel lines that come out from under the tank both are kinking right where they leave the tank nipples. I cut them down as short as I can. It still kinked. Its like the nipple is too long, or the tuning is not strong enough. It came from tangerine racing. It gets nasty black all over me if it gets fuel on it. Kind of weird fuel lines would not be ok around fuel....

Thanks,

Peter

[Spoke]

@trojanhorsepower

I had an issue with Tangerine Racing tubes as well. The issue was the bend at the gas tank was not enough to allow room for the hoses to connect. I had to further bend them to allow room for the hose connections.

Here's the initial install. The pipes point right to the front wall.



So I further bent the tubes to give more clearance.



Now they fit better and I could easily get the hoses over the tubes. It doesn't look much different in the pictures but the fit was much better.



I opted to not connect the lines directly to the gas tank as I didn't like being under the car making connections and especially if the tank needed to be lifted for any reason then trying to disconnect the tank. I even welded closed the round access hole.

The hoses are routed to the driver side where I mounted the fuel pump.



The hoses do not kink and the extra hoses allowed me to do all the connections above the car and if the tank needs to be pulled, just lift the tank. I can still run the engine with the tank lifted. Also allowed me to check for leaks once all the hoses were connected.

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