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o.d of 10mm braided fuel hose? any spare?
blakep82 - 20/6/09 at 10:03 PM

whats the o.d of 10mm fuel hose likely to be? want to get some P clips, but don't know what size to get as i haven't got my fuel hose in yet

[Edited on 20/6/09 by blakep82]

omega0684 - 20/6/09 at 10:04 PM

copper pipe,12mm?

rubber with material surround, i'd get 15mm p's

[Edited on 20/6/09 by omega0684]

Volvorsport - 20/6/09 at 10:07 PM

10mm

if you buy 10mm fuel hose , thats what it will be .

blakep82 - 20/6/09 at 10:08 PM

sorry meant to say stainless braided rubber hose.

cd.thomson - 20/6/09 at 10:11 PM

are you running that through the whole car? after spending the day trying to shape copper pipe im considering doing an about turn and using rubber pipe..

blakep82 - 20/6/09 at 10:15 PM

quote:
Originally posted by cd.thomson
are you running that through the whole car? after spending the day trying to shape copper pipe im considering doing an about turn and using rubber pipe..


yep. i know a lot of people will disagree, but i can't be doing with copper pipe.

i'd prefer some kind of telfon hose, but its too expensive at the minute. so rubber will do, and when that fails, i'll look at something else.

plan is stainless braided rubber hose, run inside plastic or copper pipe through the tunnel, as my exhaust is there too.

same with brakes too, all flexi pipes for mine. means i can take my axle out without disconnecting any brake lines at all.

[Edited on 20/6/09 by blakep82]

omega0684 - 20/6/09 at 10:18 PM

i run stainless braided throughout, no problems so far,

blakep82 - 20/6/09 at 10:22 PM

quote:
Originally posted by omega0684
i run stainless braided throughout, no problems so far,


thats what i like to hear

people say it will perish, i tend to think its just as likely to perish at the carbs or tank as it is anywhere else, so using it throughout doesn't increasethe chance of it failing

you haven't got any left over have you? i'm after some 8mm too

[Edited on 20/6/09 by blakep82]

cd.thomson - 20/6/09 at 10:23 PM

I think im going to run stainless overbraided at the rear where it runs close and exposed to the ground, plain rubber after the pump in the tunnel (not as exposed and I want to be able to check the status at a cursory glance) and then overbraided in the engine bay again after the high pressure filter.

blakep82 - 21/6/09 at 12:27 AM

^ sounds a good plan

if anyone has any spare, i'm after about 1 metre of 8mm hose

considerably more (5m) or 10mm hose, so i know i'll have to buy that, but you never know who has what

02GF74 - 21/6/09 at 08:05 AM

8 mm is 13ish mm
6 mm is 11 mm

so 10 mm will be about 15 - 16 mm

this is stuff from VWP - not sure they do 10 mm.

been on land rover for at least 6 years with no problems so far.