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Jul 5, 2006 | 04:32 PM

440man

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1984 Metal Fuel Lines

Has anyone had to replace these on your car? Does anyone know of a tech article anywhere? Does anyone know the exact diameter of the lines?

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Jul 5, 2006 | 05:04 PM

Bruce Witherspoon

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Has anyone had to replace these on your car? Does anyone know of a tech article anywhere? Does anyone know the exact diameter of the lines?

Thanks

Are yours bad and are you in need?

Jul 5, 2006 | 06:13 PM

440man

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The feed from the tank is bad, hole rusted right under the passenger compartment, and YES I'm in bad need

Anybody??

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Jul 5, 2006 | 06:43 PM

Ramanstud

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You can sometimes buy pre-bent or salvage - I wouldn't buy salvage fuel lines if my life depended on it and they were on sale.

You can bend your own by buying the diameter you prefer and then getting a $10 bender and a $10 double flare tool all at the local parts stores, but practice a bit and you'll have to peice it together due to the limited length of tubing you can get.

OR you can spend 10x what it's worth and run braided steel line all the way from the tank to the fuel rails. Looks cool, lasts damn near forever and is much easier to route (because it flexes) but costs a fortune.

Jul 5, 2006 | 07:40 PM

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You can bend your own by buying the diameter you prefer and then getting a $10 bender and a $10 double flare tool all at the local parts stores, but practice a bit and you'll have to peice it together due to the limited length of tubing you can get.

Don't sweat the "exact diameter". Except at the throttle bodies all the connections are a hose, slip fitted over the steel tubing with a hose clamp. For a patch section, a double flare might be nice, but you are only dealing with a spec with a max of 13 psi fuel pressure. I don't think you could go wrong with the factory, hose over tubing, style of connection. A tubing diameter of 3/8" will work perfectly, for the supply side, 5/16" for the return.

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Jul 5, 2006 | 10:21 PM

440man

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Thanks for the help fellas! I just bought the Vette (my 1st) a couple weeks ago and trying to get it going so I can move it around. I've got a lot of work to do on it. It needs paint & interior. Only has 72,000 and is bone stock. Nothing has ever been touched except for maintenance. It just suffers from the neglect of being left outdoors and not driven for the last 8 years. I pumped 19 gallons of water out of the tank when I got it home.