Fuel Hose - Hi vs Standard

[robcalderwood1 at charter.net (Rob Calderwood)]

Good point, thanks for they advice. I was asking because I can not seem to 
find 7mm hi-pressure hose. Standard I can find. I will keep looking.

Rob
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Brown" <sharpshooter33@adelphia.net>
To: "Rob Calderwood" <robcalderwood1@charter.net>; "scirocco scirocco" 
<scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 10:28 PM
Subject: Re: Fuel Hose - Hi vs Standard


> Rob,
> Just finished installing a plastic box(resevior) today.  I'm not sure that 
> you would need the injector hoses going down from the tank, but let me 
> share my little mishap...
> I installed regular fuel line from the resevior to the fuel pump; 
> replacing the question mark shaped gas line with the hoses on both ends. 
> It kinked and caused me another day of agravation hunting down the 
> problem.  I ended up replacing it with fuel injector line and now it's 
> fine.
> I would say regular fuel line would work, but the injector line is less 
> likely to get pinched because it's got alittle more structure. So, if I 
> were going to dig around in there and didn't want to take a chance of 
> being back there I'd fork out the extra $4-$10 and use the injector line.
>
> I do think the regular line would work. I'm just coming off a bad 
> experience.
>
> Cheers and Good luck
> David
> 86 16v turbo running again
> 86 16v awaiting face lift
> 84 8v organ donor
> 86 Jetta GLI - one day a daily driver hopefully!
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rob Calderwood" <robcalderwood1@charter.net>
> To: "Scirocco List" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 3:03 PM
> Subject: Fuel Hose - Hi vs Standard
>
>
> Does anyone know when replacing the fuel hoses between the in-tank pump 
> and the plastic fuel reservoir, do you need to use high pressure fuel 
> injector hose or will standard fuel hose do it? This is prior to the 
> under-car fuel pump.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
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