Re: [Amc-list] Darn fuel line, anyway, ...

[Jim Blair <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I do a practice bend with a coat hanger or wire to fit then match the tube to the wire.


Jim Blair, Lynnwood, WA '87 Comanche, '83 Jeep J10, '84 Jeep J10
From: Tom Jennings 
Subject: Re: [Amc-list] Darn fuel line, anyway, ...
To: "AMC/Rambler owners, drivers and fans." 
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Bending tight radii (just couldn't write radiuses :-) is a pain, plus it 
is hard to visualize some of the twists and turns, anyone can get 
dyslexic with all the flips and flops! Especially when upside down...
 
I had no real troubles doing the fuel lines under the Classic wagon. 
It's 5/16" tubing, the bends are mostly shallow, and overall mostly 
straight, and slight aesthetic errors, well, no one's under there to see 
'em :-)
 
Honestly, I use my thumbs on the brake-line sized stuff. I bend really 
slowly, working it back and forth, gently adding bend to each side to 
get the radius right. It's just too easy to go too fast with the simpler 
tools and kink the stuff. It takes most of an hour for me to bend 
something like that brake line you have, more than half the time two 
pieces, and sometimes more. (I save all the duds in a pile, you can 
usaully reuse one end or the other.)
 
I don't know why there are so many tiny variations on fuel pump/vacuum 
pump inlet and outlet positions! It's a bit nuts. You can take the pump 
partially apart and rotate the various sections, but now, 50 years 
later, you take what you can get!
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