MTFCA Forum

Hi all,

It looks like the fuel line on my 26 was at one time kinked and straightened and while whoever straightened it did an okay job it seems to be developing a crack there. Are there any tricks to making up a new line or is it just a matter of bending a piece of tube (I think I read somewhere that brake line works?) into an upside down question mark and plugging it in?

You need a tubing bender to do it right. or you could bend it around something round, about 2 or 3 inches in diameter. If you try to bend it without a support, it will kink very easily. See picture.

Sounds easy enough. I should have mentioned that I planned to pick up a small tubing bender, I was just curious if there were any non-obvious gotchas to that short line and it sounds like there aren’t.

I wouldn’t use Brake tubing as it’s usually too small and would suggest you use 5/16” tube to ensure
good supply of fuel
Alan

We use a tube bender, but I have heard that the old moonshiners would pack the tubing with sand and then just bend it or coil it by hand. The sand packed inside kept it from kinking.
Remove sand prior to installation. You'll get enough junk in your system as it is.

We always use clean gas and run it from jerry cans through paper coffee filters and a funnel into our tanks. Took off a tank from our Depot Hack yesterday and emptied the fuel into a white bucket. The gas looks like tea. No paint or lining in the tnak, just 100 year old metal. We will have the tank boiled while it is out and diesel fuel in it while we are working on the Hack. Then I'm wondering if keeping the tank as full as possible will help reduce bare metal from flash rusting while in use. Or if the tanks splashes enough to prevent this on it's own.

I have a NOS 26-7 fuel line around here somewhere. It is basically an upside down question mark. I agree having something to bend it around would be a help.