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psycho83 East of England Rhythm and Booze Posts: 777	Fuel to carb (possibly daft question)psycho83 @psycho83
	Apr 28, 2011 9:10:54 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	a friendly colleague, after hearing about my troubles has given me some fuel hose he had laying around, (brand new rubber nitrile hose). before the car had a copper line and brass fittings. if i can find the correct thread can I change the fittings on the carb and the mech fuel pump to this type and if I can, will it make a differnce that the new hose is very slightly wider bore than the old copper fuel line? cheers folks. starting to hate my Hillman!
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BenzBoy Probably posted too much Posts: 17,940 Club RR Member Number: 7	Fuel to carb (possibly daft question)BenzBoy @benzboy Club Retro Rides Member 7
	Apr 28, 2011 9:19:23 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	As long as it seals on the barb and on the pipe to the carb the other end I can't see that there would be a problem. My fuel lines are a mixture of two different bore sizes as my new carbs take a slightly bigger pipe compared to the fuel pump outlet. I used a universal inline fuel filter as the "step up" from one size to another, as the filter has a stepped pipe either end to accomodate different pipe sizes, so the small pipe from the pump fit snugly on one end, and the slightly larger pipe also fit nicely on the other.
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Seth South East MorrisOxford TriumphMirald HillmanMinx BorgwardIsabellaCombi Posts: 15,523	Fuel to carb (possibly daft question)Seth @seth
	Apr 28, 2011 9:26:43 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	I'm never keen on using long lengths of flexible hose as it seems more likely to perish than hard line. Pump should cope fine with a change in diameter feeding it and out of it too - as long as you don't go to Smokey Yunick diameters From wiki... Another Yunick improvisation was getting around the regulations specifying a maximum size for the fuel tank, by using eleven foot (three meter) coils of 2-inch (5-centimeter) diameter tubing for the fuel line to add about 5 gallons (19 liters) to the car's fuel capacity. Once, NASCAR officials came up with a list of nine items for Yunick to fix before the car would be allowed on the track. The suspicious NASCAR officials had removed the tank for inspection. Yunick started the car with no gas tank and said "Better make it ten,"[3] and drove it back to the pits. He used a basketball in the fuel tank which could be inflated when the car's fuel capacity was checked and deflated for the race.
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psycho83 East of England Rhythm and Booze Posts: 777	Fuel to carb (possibly daft question)psycho83 @psycho83
	Apr 28, 2011 9:35:41 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	cheers folks. Damn royal wedding means no motor factors will be open tomorrow will hunt for parts on Saturday and hopefully, fingers crossed get the car running again for the Ipswich to Felixstowe classics run on Sunday. if it still wont go I'll be looking for a new solex b33 or equivalent that will work.
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retrowagen1234 Guest	Fuel to carb (possibly daft question)retrowagen1234 @GUEST
	Apr 28, 2011 9:41:13 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Apr 28, 2011 9:26:43 GMT Seth said: I'm never keen on using long lengths of flexible hose as it seems more likely to perish than hard line. Pump should cope fine with a change in diameter feeding it and out of it too - as long as you don't go to Smokey Yunick diameters From wiki... Another Yunick improvisation was getting around the regulations specifying a maximum size for the fuel tank, by using eleven foot (three meter) coils of 2-inch (5-centimeter) diameter tubing for the fuel line to add about 5 gallons (19 liters) to the car's fuel capacity. Once, NASCAR officials came up with a list of nine items for Yunick to fix before the car would be allowed on the track. The suspicious NASCAR officials had removed the tank for inspection. Yunick started the car with no gas tank and said "Better make it ten,"[3] and drove it back to the pits. He used a basketball in the fuel tank which could be inflated when the car's fuel capacity was checked and deflated for the race. Cheers for that.... Just googled him... Damn interesting so far


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psycho83 East of England Rhythm and Booze Posts: 777	Fuel to carb (possibly daft question)psycho83 @psycho83
	Apr 28, 2011 10:51:53 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	anyone know where I can find the rest of this ? would help no end. looking at it I think my float stopper thingy (number 8) might have been on upside down. that cant have helped but it was working, so maybe best to leave it as is?
	Last Edit: Apr 28, 2011 10:52:35 GMT by psycho83 retrorides.proboards.com/thread/165001/1961-rover-p4-100

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