Many years ago we always ran the colored plastic fuel lines. I ran red and friends ran clear or blue. Maybe even green but I always liked the red. Trouble was it dried out and cracked in a few years so had to be careful. This brings back some memories of a three two set up on Chevy small blocks.
not the true classic look but, for more safety take a look at Russel aluminum fuel line that is anodized red or blue
I'm running the braided clear red type. I'm gonna keep an eye on it but it seems well enough. Sure is a step up from the non braided stuff. Even black fuel hose gets hard quick. Posted from the TJJ App for iPhone & iPad
How about placing metal fuel line inside the red plastic, won't lose it's color and would be much safer.
YES what he said. If you value your car at all STAY CLEAR of that red fuel line. It's not a matter of will it ever fail but when. I had some fail with only being used 1 season. A hoodless 34' pickup that was always garage kept even. Fuel started spraying the windshield luckily it never hit the lakepipes. Slip the red junk over steel lines your done!
Just remember this stuff that was outlawed in the early 60s was VINYL and not the same stuff you can get today. I had it on my 58 Plymouth and it got brittle and would crack because it lost all of it's flexibility. It would not bend and just crack. I put the new stuff on in 1997 and it was still soft and pliable when I sold it a few years ago. It does lose it's color and does not stay pretty like this. The line from the pump to the fuel block is hard line with the hose over it. The hoses from the fuel block to the carbs are not. The thumb screw fuel line clamps were more important to me than some discoloring of the hose. just because it looks like the early 60s stuff it does not mean it acts like the old vinyl fuel line of the early 60s. I've had both. I knew right away that it was a different material altogether. If it gets hard and non-pliable replace it just like you would any hose material. Mine never did. I check mine!
I agree, the new stuff is far superior to the old vinyl hose of years past. My Kid is running the red on his T bucket and although the color faded out after maybe a year or so, the hose was pliable after 3 years, but we changed it out just to be safe and to get the color back. Don
With the new additives in gasoline today you have to be careful. Some of the new gas is messing up a lot of old style products. Ago
I had it on a strip down model A many moons ago,,,cracked and the old flatty went up in flames,but I'm sure the material that is used for gas lines today is made specifically for fuel. HRP
mine turned yellow in one summer. they seal good though. once you put them on you cant hardly get them off. they used to be as red as my plug wires.
I got a big roll of this stuff some years ago, but was afraid to use it. I just slid some steel line inside it, and it worked like a charm on my bike and looked awesome.
i just took off the old vinyl plain red hose of the car, was not hard or brittle, was faded, i figure it was there close to 5 years, have the braided stuff on order, will keep an eye on it.
The stuff you took off was not vinyl. Vinyl was outlawed in the 60s. I put the new stuff on my 32 in 1997 and it was still flexible when I sold it a few years ago. (discolored but very flexible) You'd have to have the 2 types in your hands to feel the difference. The catalog pictures are from a 1961 Honest Charlie catalog. The vinyl stuff has not been available for over 40 years.
I installed red braided 6 weeks ago and it's fading already. Even though I run non-ethanol I still attribute the fading to the junky-ass gas being forced on us. peace
Some people still make the vinyl junk.They buy irrigation line at home depot,and try to use some type of red dye.This will fail with ANY type of gas,old or new.The modern line is urethane or nylon.This works with some modern gas,but it will melt at anything over 10% Ethanol.Read the atricles in many magazines and saw that this new gas is even eating through fiberglass bike tanks.The first sign was the fiberglass clogging the carbs.BAD FUEL.It will even eat the lines in cars made prior to 2008.My new car -one day ols-had to have the pump and lines replaced because the station had a bad mix or mixing valve that allowed the ratio of the supposed 10% ethanol to be much higher. As far as fading,red was always prone to fading.The Florida sun has turned the red stitching on my car's interior to start to fade after one year.The line on my '51 coupe stayed red and soft for 5 years,but this was a closed hood car.Sunlight/ultra violet light does take a toll on red.
only thing ive ever used it for was pcv valve hose.some traditions should not be followed ,use modern day hose made for todays fuel.better yet make up some nice stainless hard lines,they will last forever and not burn your car to the ground.
Despite all the neg, red fuel lines is a classic custom touch. It was good enough for that piss yellow, puke green deuce coupe that's suppose to be hot stuff.
this is what i did on the shoebox polished the copper lines before i slid it into the red plastic gives a good look havent had it running so i dont know how well the color will hold up the red lines do not come in contact with the fuel at least they shouldnt
I've got the clear red type on a couple cars. Been on each for several years without any trouble. Still nice and flexible too.
I buy this stuff from Honest Charley and it's good for about 3 months on a hoodless car. I like the way it looks, but it doesn't last very long. I always keep about a foot of it in the trunk, just in case...
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