Options to replace fuel lines from tank to filter?

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Urambo Tauro

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That looks exactly like what I pieced together for my truck (except for the threaded filter setup of course). Can't find my receipt at the moment, but I wonder what the difference in price would be. Surely the kit-maker is making a profit here, but I wonder if he's getting bulk discounts on the fittings by buying so many of them to make these kits. Tubing is pretty cheap, but the fittings are kinda pricey once you add them all up. I have a feeling it's probably fairly close once you do all the math.

Of course, buying a kit is certainly more convenient than rounding up all the parts, so that's something to factor into the comparison too. Man... I'm almost tempted to gather all the parts and start selling my own kits with the quick-connect filter setup.
 

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You can buy brand new steel tubing in 25 ft rolls. I bought a roll of 3/8" to do the fuel lines on 2 cars i am restoring. Ran me $19 for 1 roll of it. Take you old lines out and use them for a template to bend the new lines.
 

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You can buy brand new steel tubing in 25 ft rolls. I bought a roll of 3/8" to do the fuel lines on 2 cars i am restoring. Ran me $19 for 1 roll of it. Take you old lines out and use them for a template to bend the new lines.

You have to be able to connect those lines though.
 

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The high pressure fittings on either end you mean?

Yes. The earlier ones are threaded, but you've got to have the right flare tool... it's not like brake line fittings. The later ones crimped on rubber lines with quick connect fittings crimped onto the other end.
 

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This makes me want to take off my bed and R&R all my brake/fuel lines.

I'm a fan of repairing or replacing things BEFORE they cause a problem. I've only had this truck for 2 months and I spent most of the time under the hood undoing all the rigging from the previous owner and doing a full tune up, TBI rebuild etc. My gas gauge is pegged full so after replacing the pump and sending unit, cleaning up the ground etc (all of which required a tank drop), I must have disturbed those lines just enough to make them leak. One of the few times a problem caught me off guard. My fuel gauge is still pegged full, though, lol.
 

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This makes me want to take off my bed and R&R all my brake/fuel lines.

Dude you're in TX... yours are probably perfect. Here in MI, I've only had to do a rear line (twice, as the patch with coated line rusted really fast for some reason). It's now the fancy copper alloy stuff. My fuel line is getting fragile in the same area as that brake line... right by the gas tank filler.
 

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I'm a fan of repairing or replacing things BEFORE they cause a problem. I've only had this truck for 2 months and I spent most of the time under the hood undoing all the rigging from the previous owner and doing a full tune up, TBI rebuild etc. My gas gauge is pegged full so after replacing the pump and sending unit, cleaning up the ground etc (all of which required a tank drop), I must have disturbed those lines just enough to make them leak. One of the few times a problem caught me off guard. My fuel gauge is still pegged full, though, lol.

I refer to what your having to undo from a prev owner as UnF@@King it. I would grind down and paint the frame while in there changing out the lines.

It always seemed that very car or truck i would buy used i used to pull out the trash can and fill it up. I remember the 71 C/10 custom i bought and brought home years ago. Horn didnt work. Theres about 6 different some goofy looking horns attached to the radiator support, and miles of Gawdawful non stock wiring everywhere. I removed all the non stock horns, and wiring birdsnest. Found the stock horn wire unplugged and plugged it back into the stock delco horn next to it. Blew out the dust under the horn cap viola i got a working horn, and a half a trash can full of garbage.

Or the 69 charger i bought and restored. I had to use a shovel and 2 trash cans to clean out the trunk, as well as UnF@@K all the wiring on that one too. I did score on that one however. I got some SK tools with it. 1/2" breaker bar 1&1/4" socket, 7/8" socket, 1/2" wrench, and 1&1/4" wrench. The 1&1/4".wrench and socket work perfectly on a mopar V8 harmonic balancer bolt. Yes a mopar V8 balancer bolt is that big. I still have the tools i got from its trunk. Car is long gone though. I could kick myself for that.
 
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