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 )
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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