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Originally Posted by Jeff Walker
Looking really good B-man!  |
Thanks Jeff, coming from someone who really knows their way around a restoration shop that's a big compliment.
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Originally Posted by hellerods
GO B-man go-Go-B-man GO-b-mAN  |
Lee, sometimes I need someone to light a fire under me to keep me going on this.
When you're involved with a big project there will always be mistakes made that need to be corrected.
It turns out the exhaust pipe going over the rear axle would have been much too close to my fuel line, when I mocked up the tailpipe location to see if the line would clear it I didn't have it up high enough. I messed around trying to reconfigure the chassis fuel line and just couldn't get it where I wanted it.
I cut off about the last foot of line and got out my flaring tool so I could use an inverted flare union to join it up with a new piece of 3/8" steel line bent in the correct configuration. I put another inverted flare on the piece of line that goes into the filter and joined it up with the newly bent line using another union.
The end result is a lot cleaner-looking than before and eliminates a small piece of rubber fuel hose. Now the tailpipe doesn't even come close to the line, in the picture it has been dropped down so I could access the fuel line.
