Urgent Help needed: Leaking Fuel Pipe

Hi,

Just wondering what is the best (and MOT legal) way to replace a leaking fuel pipe on a Daewoo Espero (Cavalier). The pipe has got bad enough to drip petrol onto the road and appears to be coming from a place about in the centre of the car.. The pipe runs though what I think are hard plastic guides alongside the brakeline just underneath the sill. It's difficult to see where it attaches to at each end though, but it's easy to get to a section of the pipe (which is metal btw) which appears in good condition and seems sound. I was wondering whether it would be legal to cut out the corroded bit and splice in a length of plastic fuel pipe using the special jubilee clips created for the purpose. I don't think it will be possible to feed the new tube though the old grommets without breaking them, so wondered whether it would be ok to cable tie the new pipe to the brakeline.

Any help from people that have had experience of this sort of thing would be appreciated.

Thanks

SilverB

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Ray Birch
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Thanks for the reply Tony. Anybody else got any exerience of replacing a longer bit?

SilverB

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SilverB

I once had to replace several feet of petrol pipe on a Carlton.

I used copper central heating pipe linked with rubber petrol hose and screw clips.

It went through an MOT OK.

Phil

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Phil Cousins

Reply to
Maximus Glutimus

Had similar problem when the fuel line on my old cavalier was cut - the plastic one (on that car at least) was the return from the carb to the tank, and so the car ran OK but pumped all the fuel out!

I just got a letgth og fuld pipe of the right size to fit over the broken ends, and a pair ofJubliee clips ( I think it was a kit from Halfords) and joind it all up. no more probs.

Repairs to copper pipes were done in the same way years ago!

You should be able to get legths of fuel line from your dealer, it's used quite commonlly - eg my other Cavalier (1.8 '95) had the fuel filter clipped to the rear body above the axle, with flexi fule lines jubilee-clipped onto each end. Went through several replacment filters with the same pipe no problem, except once when I trimmed-off the end of one of them which had perished.

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R. Murphy

Thanks for the reply Chewie. It's much appreciated (however late:-) The flexible pipe seems to be doing the job OK. As I'm hoping to change the car before much longer, and I don't expect it to be worth much, (proper brake pipe or no proper brake pipe). I think I may as well leave it. At least it's no longer leaking and with any luck I'll be shot of it before the next MOT's due.

Thanks

SilverB

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SilverB

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