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Fuel system
Wow, this old gasolline smell is nasty; I'm now way beyond the memories of my Carozzeria Touring Alfa (dash plaque: [I]1958 World Champions[I]) and just feeling a hair nauseous.
I just spent a few minutes in the garage (doors wide open) to look at the fuel hoses in the engine bay. Mine are routed up under the brake booster and across to the rail, as opposed to from under the car to the right inner fender then up and over the exhaust manifold. I'm assuming mine, which avoids the heat of the header, is the later amd safer arrangement.
The PET shows these two (primary supply and return) hoses as having threaded connectors near the joint of the rubber <> hard line crimp, to enable the removal of the rubber section from the hard lines, but on my car I cannot see any such union. Looking at the replacement parts/kits available**, the suppliers provide rubber hose, that - once you have safely cut the factory lines near their original crimps, attach the new rubber sections to the hard pipes using compression fittings, from whence they traverse the engine itself and connect, with correct new metric metal fittings, to the arrival (and departure) ports/devices on the fuel rail. I hope that makes sense.
** In deference to Pelican, to whom I am most grateful for hosting this Forum, one cannot expect them to carry some of the ultra-model-specific stuff which more singularly focused specialists have come up with to keep these cars on the road. I'm not sure if any mention of them will get scrambled by the Pelican censors, but I will understand if they do.
One such 924/944/968 specialist supplier located in Florida shows the kit I just mentioned, plus all the other fuel hoses I'll need to replace, some from Porsche AG, others NLA and thus recreated or made as kits to work with reusable sections of the original parts on the car.
Another specialist which supplies very cool and cost effective alternatives to Porsche factory tools, Arnnworx, wrote an article about the DIY replacement of a 944's (my car's mechanical near-twin) fuel hoses and rightly points out what a big project this is (and one that must be approached with immense care). He explains the different types of hose/pipe connectors available if one is trying to do this job without an open checkbook or access to pieces Porsche AG no longer has available for sale. This is the approach the shop in FLA took for those main supply and return hoses I just described.
Going that route, how much will this - replacing all my rubber fuel hoses - cost? Looks like it will be the best part of $600-700. Ouch! That's not being critical of anyone; Porsche designed a robust, high quality fuel system, and ... you know the rest.
I will first run all this past guru Len Cummings, whose replacement fuel hoses and lines I used in my SC and are extremely nice. In the meantime, I'm hoping the stink in my garage will diminish.
John
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