Fuel rail on '93 falling apart

I'm an outboard mechanic that happens to own a Vette, I'm having trouble with the alcohol in todays gas causing fuel line troubles in older boats.

I know you don't have the same problem - but in general - when I replace 1 anything - I replace it's brother to avoid the same trouble next month. So I'd replace the other rail were it mine.

-W

He hasn't said how many miles he has on this car, or what kind of usage it has seen over 16 years.

AJM '93 40th Anniversary coupe, 6 sp (both tops)

• - putting new C6-style rims on her on Monday

GM didn't make them to do it either. Any particular reason you bother to read and post to this group?

What a retard. You are finding fault because a part failed after

16 years of exposure to gasoline and moisture. This does not count as a screw up at all.

.............I'm guessing that the crud hew removed was actually the rail material that became loose inside...........

I bet Toyota and Honda don't make their fuel rails to erode like that. Then you wonder why GM is going out of business. Sadly you can add this case to the list of GM Screw Ups brought to you by beancounters.

Because I love my 61 Corvette and can't believe why GM has done to America what is has done the last 30 years. Especially Roger Smith.

My friend's 94 Honda Accord has 550,000 miles on it and never had the fuel rails errod. But then they don't allow beancounters and Honda to tell them how to make the fuel rails.

My stock '50 Chevy coupe has 673,921.4 miles on it and has never had breather oil changed or the fuel rail changed. The pool boy's step mothers boy friends lover has a 4 yard '55 Chevy dump truck with 2,000,002 miles on it and the motor has never been shut off. Followed your friend's Honda one day but had to pass it on a hill so he wouldn't have to slow down.

Ever think that his '93 may have set for some extended length of times and has had moisture in the fuel rails?

Your turn...................

50 Chevy --- fuel rail? Thought the blue flame six had a single throat carburetor with the mechanical fuel pump. At least that's how I remember that engine from the 50s.

Come again.. ??? :)

-W

Speaking the truth, usually involves avoiding transparant spin.

-W

Thanks. That was very helpful. Now, a 93 Honda that would be a thrilling car to own. I'll keep the Vette.

But does it love you?

-W

(I hear it's been having an affair with a Boxter while you were away on Truth Speaking engagements. )

It is just under 70,000 miles. It was a low mileage cream puff that I bought in 98 for $19,000. It had 12,000 miles for the first 6 years. After that, it was a daily driver until I retired 3 years ago. Since then, it has returned to its former life as a low mileage cream puff. I've driven it more since getting the rails cleaned and seeing the power restored than I did for several months before that.

That's what makes them so hard to change. Even more difficult is changing the oil on the dump truck without turning the engine off.

Actually the Chevrolet inline six was introduced in the thirties, just before I was born, and was phased out in 1963. The name Blue Flame Six was just that, a name and had more to do with what transmission was hooked on to the back end in the begining. Technically my '50 is not a Blue Flame Six because it is a standard shift, 3 on the tree.

Sorry, I thought the whole scenario was far fetched enough that it would also be recognizable as another yarn/urban legend.

I have a 64 vette and love it. My friends in the Corvette Car club all have late model Corvettes. I honestly do not see what they see in these late model cars. To me they represent modern GM and all that is screwed up with them. Maybe I will buy 2015 Vette after they get their act together, but i am not holding my breath.

Vito

Its having an affair with a ZR-1

Can you send a picture of the stock 50 Chevy fuel rail?

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A 50 Chevy most likely could go 600,000 miles. That was before the era of Roger Smith and all the other clown CEOs that had their heads up their asses.