Ok so I finally got started on the finishing parts for my 50 Chevy 216/235 swap..I was going like a mad man & burned out and had to take a couple of weeks off, i could only strip & paint greasy, nasty parts for so long. I am very close to having the motor complete and ready to drop, but i was thinking of going with blue fuel line instead of the steel. I found some on ebay, but was not sure of the size needed, they had 3/8 od-1/4 id line all over the place-but that seems awful small. I do not yet have the skills or possibly the patience for bending and flaring steel tube. I have seen the red see through line all over the place and thought the blue would look wicked on my car, plus it should be easy to splice from the factory steel line to rubber, to a splitter to barbs on the carbs. Oh yeah I am running a Fenton intake/headers on a fresh motor. The thing is-it could ruin my day if the lines are **** and I burn to death!!! Any suggestions???? This seems easy, and the look would be killer with more blue accents, and the see through tubing looks great, but that burning thing keeps coming up-call me funny...Anyhow I am listening to you carb gurus or to anybody that has success or failures with this stuff & the proper sizing if it's worth running....oh yeah just in case you were wondering the fuel pump is an stock gl*** bowl, and I am trying to keep it vintage looking..Thanks again!!!
I think it would clash with your vintage look. To me, it would be around a 10% return on your invested cash and labor. Bob
5/16 steel tube or hose ID is adequate for your engine.That see through fuel hose scares me,but guys use it a lot I guess. I prefer to use steel lines all the way and a short hose if only needed for flexability.Sounds like you're just too stuborn to learn tubing,so it's hose all the way
Not so much stubborn, just never done it. My Dad has the tools (bender & flare tool), I just have never used them for a project like this. I just thought that the blue tube might give a nice accent, but it's not worth my life!!!! Anymore thoughts???
My local Advance Auto Parts sells different lengths of metal fuel/brake lines in different diameters. All one would have to do is pick the right length and bend it with a tubing bender. If you've still got the junk stock fuel lines, you can use those to measure the length. I can understand not wanting to flare lines if you've never done it before, but bending them should be quite easy.
Its real easy to bend the line just don't get in a hurry. Otherwise, its a snap. The flare tool isn't too hard to use. You could always take your old lines, ***uming your going to discard them, cut them and then and practice. If you are goin to run your new lines in the exact same place and need to use your old lines to measure, just buy a straight run piece of tubing at a local auto parts store and cut it and practice. Its not hard to flare lines, again just be patient.
2 ways to do it: flare it or use compression fittings. Your Fenton dual carb intake from Patrick's came with compression fittings. It seems we care more about how our 6 cylinder lines look than anyone else. Most others dont really give a ****
Flaring fuel lines is far easier than brake lines. Fuel line usually has less than 10 pounds of pressure. I like flared lines better than compression- compression lines fail catastrophically when they blow or get yanked out of the fitting. Flared lines just leak a little. Never run hose over the exhaust manifold.
I have the old lines to go off of but they are mangled up quite a bit, but I think i will give it the old college try...whats the worst that can happen besides I have to buy a couple sticks of line and bend for a while!!?
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