You can replace hard steel line with cupronickel, it’s an alloy so it will perform like steel, but is easy to bend.

thank you all.

the gates 27335/27348 barricade hose is the best out there with pressure rating at 225psi and permeability at virtually nil per sq meter. the cheapest i found for a 15 ft roll was rock auto at the $35 and change. it seems you can only buy 2 foot pieces then it goes to 15 and 25 feet rolls

i was concerned there might be pulsing in the hose as the injectors pulse at the engine causing odd behavior.

access is awful and short of dismantling the right rear suspension flexible is the only rational solution

Dear 1pocket,

Hope you're wll. I recall a post by Bruce Young ("Lucid", of blessed memory), reporting how hard it had been to replace that steel fuel pipe. Access was a problem. He concluded that fuel hose is the "way to go".

My '93 wagon just developed a pin-hole leak in the barbed steel fitting at the fuel filter's front end. The banjo bolt goes through the fitting. Plastic lined fuel hose is heat-shrunk onto the fitting. The hose goes to the fuel rail.

The steel fitting was never supplied separate from the hose, and the hose is "no longer available". I cannibalized a Bosch fuel system part (#1312297), which connects an underside-mounted main fuel pump and the fuel filter, on a two-pump Bosch fuel system. That steel piece, emplaced in plastic-lined fuel hose, will duplicate the factory-supplied fuel hose.

If fuel hose is OK from the the filter to the engine, there's no reason fuel hose can't be used from the tank to the filter. If you're concerned about road-hazard damage to fuel hose on the underbody, shield the hose with braided stainless steel sleeving.

Hope this helps.

Yours faithfully,

Spook

225 psi working pressure rating

That should work without any problems.
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