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Old Aug 19, 2007 | 04:26 PM
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Cutting hard fuel line?

Does anybody have a good way to cut the hard fuel line? I have a section that is leaking that i want to cut and replace with rubber injection hose.
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Old Aug 19, 2007 | 04:38 PM
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Old Aug 19, 2007 | 04:39 PM
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ill take a stab at this and say get a tubing cutter. something like this http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/produ...id=00951250000
as always make sure to debur the end so you dont get little metal bits ripping off and getting jammed in an injector
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Old Aug 19, 2007 | 04:45 PM
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The thing is, I don't wanna set my car on fire from the sparks that cutting it with a dremel will make. And I don't have much room to turn a tubing cutter around in there.
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Old Aug 19, 2007 | 05:26 PM
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really your only option is using a tubing cutter anything else is half-assed, or dangerous, or you could just go pull the entire hardline out of a junkyard car
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Old Aug 19, 2007 | 05:35 PM
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I found a small tubing cutter that my dad had and I was able to bend the line down far enough and I got it cut. Thanks guys.

Do I need to flare out the end of the metal line where I attach the rubber line to? Or can I just push it on there pretty far and double clamp it?
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Old Aug 19, 2007 | 07:44 PM
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You'll want to straighten the end out so the flow is still decent. Don't forget to clean it off so that little metal pieces don't get jammed into a injector.
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Old Aug 19, 2007 | 07:55 PM
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haha silly me, i assumed you would take it out of the car and drain it before dremeling. if you werent going to clean off a newly cut metal you don't belong cutting metal. glad you got it sorted out.
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Old Aug 21, 2007 | 12:47 PM
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One more question. Can I use regular fuel line on the return line or should I use injection line on it too? Cause injection line is expensive and hard to find.
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Old Aug 21, 2007 | 12:49 PM
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as long as its fuel compatible, low pressure line for the return is fine. Usually though its hard to find fuel compatibile line now-a-days that ISN'T high pressure.....
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