My least favourite job until this point had been messing with the fuel tank (reinstalling it on my own, no less!)
Forming and fitting new fuel lines now tops that chart!
I started with the old line which I'd yanked from the car rather unceremoniously. It had a few extra bends in it but was good enough to work with.
I set up my new flaring tool and learned how to do it relatively quickly with a couple of YouTube vids...
I managed to get one done, but got a bit oversealous with my pipe bender and spent a good hour test fitting and pondering over if it was suitable or not. I'd put in an extra couple of bends which in hindsight weren't necessary....
I'm going to run with it as is (£40 for 5m means mistakes are costly!) And form the 2nd line in the next few days.
I would have liked to have run these lines through the transmission tunnel, but it will be nigh on impossible to get in there to fit them at this stage, so they will run along the underside of the car, along the passenger side floor pan.
I soaked the fuel line brackets in Evaporust overnight as they were quite rusty...I will get these sprayed up this week.
ZCardepot and Rockauto both impressed me this week with quick (4 days!) deliveries.
Big thanks to ZCardepot for swiftly shipping me a replacement idle air control housing after I found a fault with the original one they sent. They even threw in some extra manifold bolts FOC
