Re: [T3] Even Still Can't Get It Rigth With The New FI Parts In -- PROGRESS!!!

[phil cain <bearsvw2000@yahoo.com>]

--- Keith Park <TopNotchResto@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> ALL fuel lines should be changed each 10 years...
> its a safety issue.
> 
> The oil in the pressure sensors is from someone
> overfilling the air cleaners
> on the early cars.  it makes the sensors sluggish.
> 
> keith
> 
> >
> > I put in another pressure sensor and the black
> smoke is gone and it
> > seems zippier than before.  I haven't given it the
> Texas Street test
> > (A good hill to test these things in central San
> Diego).
> >
> > An interesting thing.  The one I got from the
> junkyard yesterday had
> > some oil dripping out of it when I took it out of
> the box this
> > afternoon.  Is that a sign of something that was
> wrong with the car it
> > came from or is it possible that the one I had in
> there had lost some
> > oil that was supposed to be in there?
> >
> > Now the bad news.  It seeks at idle.  I suppose I
> probably have to
> > readjust it with the new pressure sensor.  And
> there is a leak in the
> > fuel lines.  It looks like I cracked the one that
> goes to the #3
> > injector when attaching the pressure gauge.  They
> all look pretty old
> > and brittle.
> >
> > This brings up a question I have for Jim.  You
> were planning to sell
> > fuel line replacement kits.  I think it fell
> through.  If it didn't,
> > I'd like to buy one.  If it did, could you send me
> a shopping list
> > with lengths of what diameter and good brand
> names.
> >
> >
> > Mark Healey
> > 71 FI auto square
> > 71 FI manual square
> > marksvw@healeyonline.com
> >
> >
> >THINK 10 YEARS IS A LITTLE MUCH, with the 7mm
german fuel line I have never gotten over 4 years,
that is the cut off for my self and my customers and I
havent had a fire on any of the cars yet, much over 4
years we seem to start getting small leaks.
>
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