Quick 'how to' replace fuel lines

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  • S-Express
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    these were the little blighters, you can see the corrosion doesn't look too bad - but when I took the rubber off, it peed fuel all down my arm

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  • S-Express
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    exploded....
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  • S-Express
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    and these rather excellent pipe joiners.
    They're WADE connectors which apparently are the best, I was informed that these little beauties will with stand huge pressures and are not poor quality like a lot of the cr*p you can get if you just go to a plumbers merchants. They were about £1.50 each.

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  • S-Express
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    take some cupro nickel fuel pipe.....
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    Quick 'how to' replace fuel lines

    Finally got round to doing my fuel lines today.
    TBH they didn't look too bad, thought they may even scrape through an MOT.
    As it turned out - I'm very glad I replaced them!
    I advise anyone with corrosion of the fuel pipes in and around the rubber mounting areas to have a serious think about replacing the pipes.
    Basically, when I released the clips and started to pull the rubbers off the pipes, the corrosion had welded the pipes to the rubber and the act of pulling the rubbers off actually caused 1 pipe to start leaking. Upon inspection I found it was only the rust in the rubber mounting that was in effect 'patching' the pipe. eek!
    Anyway, job now done using some neat little pipe connectors as described below:
    (this may take a couple of hours as I'm multi - tasking )
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