J. Adrian,
This was done to many of the older cars with the troublesome manual fuel
pumps so that an electric could be installed. As long as you are not
concerned with originality, what you propose is perfectly safe.
Herb
'59 frog.
J. Adrian Barnes wrote:
> The body shell I am rebuilding my car on has a unique and interesting
> history. At some point, somebody decided it would be a good idea to cut
> the (steel?) fuel line before it got to the tank. They left it all in
> place, they just cut the line in two at the top of the rear wheel arch.
> Is it safe for me to just clamp a rubber hose to the line and run that
> the rest of the way down to the tank, or must I replace the whole line?
>
> Thanks!
>
> adrian,
> not wanting to touch the underside of his parts car,
> '75 Midget shell in the paint shop
>
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> J. Adrian Barnes
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>
> "When there was no meat, we ate
> fowl. When there was no fowl we
> ate crawdads. When there were no
> crawdads we ate sand."
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