fuel pipes

[simony]

anybody replaced all there fuel pipes ? any idea how much it would cost at a garage ?

[Sir Chad]

I did mine when i converted to golf gti engine, it's an easy job so shouldn't cost much in labour. i used stainless pipe, i got it out of the scrap bin at work, you could use rubber fuel hose from a motor factors, that's pretty expensive so my advice would be to go to VW and get a price for the Original Equipment plastic pipes. A garage might hold stock of plastic pipe, If i remember rightly you can buy it from RS but it comes in 50m rolls.

[stuckin88]

A garage should charge you no more than an hours labour + materials--iirc its 6mm bore pipe you want--correct stuff is rubber & marked fuel hose with a bs kite mark-dont use anything else--certainly not the cloth braided sort--you can buy 1 mtre of fuel hose from Halfords & also get a fuel filter-which is just behind the fuel tank & enough hose clips--easy diy job--

[toomanytoys]

the front to back (tank to engine and return) are plastic and dont generally degrade, its just the bits in the engine bay and the bits that connect to the tank and filter.. this should be a lot of length.. If a "DG" the use 5.6mm (IIRC or could be 5.7mm) NOT 6mm or 1/4" this will be too loose...
Ise propper petrol pipe clips too, not crappy jubilee clips...

The fuel hose wont be very cheap but its quality fuel injection rated hose... you can use this to do the breather pipes off the tank too (in the front wheel arches.. dont need clips if you use the 5.6mm)

Not sure about Injected engines, seem to remember these have a slightly larger pipe and needs to be Fi hose with pressure rating...

[Willoughby]

Hi Simony

I found if a bit of a nightmare, from the engine to the front fuel filter was a doddle.

When I got to the expansion tank and the vent valve. I got in a pickle there is not much space up front and I recon to do a proper job you have to drop the tank.

Also I found the fuel (jubilee) clips didn't close to a proper "O" they were more of a "D" and they let in air. I tried a few different types and ended up using plastic.

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Kev

[toomanytoys]

"Jubilee" and "fuel pipe" clips are 2 different things... proper fuel pipe clips work cotrrectly at the small sizes.. they can be seen to be different to your average hose clip in that they have a nut and bolt arrangement... those plastic ones work well too, but I have never been able to find them....

[Willoughby]

Hi

I should have specified it was the Jubilee® Juniors fuel clips I was using not the standard ones.
The mate who was helping me had a small incident with his almost lost his bay, so we were being a bit ana1.
We tried loads the ones you get at halfords in a kit with the fuel line are good but the ones they sell individually are not so good. the pound shop has some that had loads of slots in them and the sealed better than any other but once we got hold of the plastic ones we were sold.

K

[Bowton Lad]

A garage should charge you no more than an hours labour + materials--iirc its 6mm bore pipe you want--correct stuff is rubber & marked fuel hose with a bs kite mark-dont use anything else--certainly not the cloth braided sort--you can buy 1 mtre of fuel hose from Halfords & also get a fuel filter-which is just behind the fuel tank & enough hose clips--easy diy job--

VW used the rubber braided fuel hose in the 60s, 70s & 80s. The fuel hose in the engine bay of my van was of the braided type (to/from the fuel pump). I have replaced it with the same type from GSF & it will last for years.

The fuel hose under the van is the plastic type but it is connected to the bottom of the fuel tank by braided hose still with the factory type clamp on it.

[meggles]

Might be stating the obvious here but, when I changed my fuel pipes I needed to replace all the clips which hold the pipes to the chassis! Make sure you are prepared. Replacing the pipes was fairly straight forward. Doesn't neeed a garage to do the job. Around tank area is a bit of a squeeze though. Also the bit at the rear where it goes from pump in to engine bay. I replaced all mine with rubber petrol hose, saved on joints!
Good Luck and take care with petrol. (It's expensive!)

[trundletruc]

We had a fire in the engine bay some years back which burnt the carb. It was noticeable that the plastic supply pipe from the tank had melted and sealed itself. Is it designed to do this?