Made new fuel lines & bending tips

[A.J.]

I'm going to be running E85 in my SRT4 van and want to make sure I have enough fuel. I was having an issue with my return line being too small and causing my fuel pressure to flutter so I ran a 3/8" soft line temporarily to alleviate that. I made the pressure line out of 3/8" stainless steel and when I drop the tank to put in a bigger fuel pump (I think I'm going to go with the Deatschwerks DW300) that's when I'll make the return line out of 3/8" stainless steel also.

I found when bending the line to put the tool in the vise to free up one hand to hold the line you are trying to duplicate. When you are making a bend, always hold the line you're duplicating so the bend is down. I found it's a lot easier to duplicate the bend if I'm holding the line so the bend is down instead of to the side. I also used hose clamps to hold the line together temporarily while bending because after a few bends it was getting too long to hold them together.























I used my brake line flaring tool to make a bulge at the end.

[Lotashelbys]

Nice! A local friend and myself just got done doing almost the same thing last night on a 92 Lebaron resto. Did 3/8" S/S feed line and 1/4" S/S return and all 3/16" brake lines with S/S gravel guard. I will have to post pics of ours too.

[Reaper1]

Nice tips!

[cordes]

Wow, so that's what it's like to have something left of the old line when you need to run the new one. Thanks for the tips AJ. I really like the idea of putting the tool in the vise.

[iTurbo]

Looks really good A.J. I've bent up new lines for a Spirit R/T twice now, and I now it takes a lot of patience, skill, and experience to make them look that good. Especially when you have two lines (supply/return) that you want to follow each other back to the tank nicely. Well done.

[A.J.]

I got the back half of the return line done today. I would have done the whole thing but I was short 6" of line. It's probably better that I do it in two sections since it's so long.







I had to reform the hold-downs. The original 5/16" X 2 + 3/16" wasn't going to work for 3/8" X 2 + 3/16".

[blk86trbo]

Great job and lots of nice pics too...it's neat to see how clean the bottom of your van is