Re: [AMC-list] '65 American 195.6 Fuel Pump to Carb alternatives

[Bruce Griffis <bruce.griffis@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks! I wasn't sure about plain old rubber as my steel line goes up
and over the valve cover. I was worried about heat. But it doesn't
seem to be doing the heater hose any harm, so ...

Maybe I can save the 45 bucks or so and just go simple and
straight-forward. (6AN stainless steel on a 195.6 Rambler with a 1
barrel! It might cause a few chuckles or outright guffaws)

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:25 PM, tom jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Plain old rubber works fine, it's only 3 - 5 psi or so. Pipe sizes are
> measured by the INSIDE DIAMETER of the tube, not the threads, so a '1/8"
> nipple' will have a threaded portion about 3/8" wide.
>
> Then there's flare vs. pipe. There are flare fittings to accept hose, that
> will screw into the place where the steel flared line with nut go.
>
> Decent hardware stores often are better stocked, and less jumbled by sloppy
> uncaring customers who tend to put the parts back in the wrong drawer at the
> auto parts store! What I'd do is take a section of old steel flared line to
> the store and match up fittings. You can find a flare female to fit your old
> line; then use that to check that the hose fitting fits that female portion
> (then put it back in the right drawer :-)
>
> A few feet of rubber fuel line and good worm clamps of the right size and
> you're done.
>
> You can even chop the ends off your old steel line, leave 1.5" of straight
> smooth steel at the nut, and put hose on *that*. That's Rambler Mentality
> :-) In that case I'd use two hose clamps, 180 degrees apart, since there's
> no bumpies to grip the hose, but that's paranoia, mechanical fuel pumps
> rarely generate more than 7 psi stalled, most unlikely to pop off a hose.
> I've done it without embarrassment.
>
> (I admit I tend to act with old car repairs like that joke about 'always
> wear clean underwear, what will the nurses think if you end up in the
> emergency room?'. If J. Random Carnut pops the hood on my funky-a** Rambler
> wagon, I want nothing to embarrass me under there, even temporary fixes that
> might be occasionally necessary!)
>
>
>
>> Next up: redo the electrical connections to the coil and distributor.
>> Something gave me a decent jolt when I stuck my hand in there! Need to
>> get the car moving again before I have to worry about the gas sitting
>> in the tank too long.
>>
>>
> You can get a good whack from the - or sometimes + side of the coil too.
> When the magnetic field collapses in the coil it also generates a voltage
> spike on the coil primary, a couple hundred volts, enough to jab you.
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