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get a flaring kit from a parts store
Posted by JohnK (more from JohnK) on Tue, 5 Dec 2000 11:05:41
In Reply to: Fuel Injection Plumbing, Boomer, Mon, 4 Dec 2000 11:30:04
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The tubing to practise on is available from most parts chains, but you don't need it. However, you do need the special tool. The special tool is basically the same thing that you use to hold metal tubing when you flare the ends. Lisle makes a tubing flaring kit with a minivise to that will work fine. The mini vise is sort of a split block with a channel to hold the tubing firmly so you can use a big C clamp to force the elbow into the tube. Start with the vise clamped about 1/4 inch from the end of the fuel line...just enough so that you can get the tube over the first ridge on the elbow. The next step is to reposition the minivise back another 1/4 inch and use the clamp to push the elbow over the next ridge. Repeat until it's on all the way. Pros claim that you can use a hammer to bang the elbow in once the fuel line is in the special tool because the elbow is supposedly very durable (I didn't have the nerve to try and used the c clamp to ease it on). As an alternate approach, others have used a short piece of standard flexible fuel hose that slips over the elbow and over fuel line, and then used little hose clamps to hold the secure the link. That's also the solution if you break the plastic fuel line and don't want to replace the whole fuel line.
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