fuel lines

[914 Bob]

How do you properly plug the return fuel line on the tank when you go to carbs. Also how do you tell if your car has had the fuel lines replace per the recall?

[BenI]

The easy way is to take a short piece of fuel line, jam a bolt in one end, and attach it with a couple of hose clamps. I silver soldered a plug in the hole so no gas sits down there. It also seems you could make a gasket that would replace the ring on the line to simply block the hole. These may be nicer, but the hose piece does its job. Good luck!

[JP Noonan]

The best would be to find a copper end pipe cap. I'm thinking the nipple off the tank is NPT and not metric but I could be wrong. In any case take the return line 3" pipe off the bottom of the tank and see what threads the nipple is.

They must have done it on the 914-6 and Euro 914 1.8L cars, right???

[914 Bob]

How did you connect the plastic fuel line to the rubber fuel line going to the carbs?

[LHAYES]

An easy fix for me was to remove the nut and nipple, use the washer to fashion an aluminum blank, slap some gasoline proof sealer on both sides of the blank, slip it into the nut so it covers the hole that the nipple used to pass thorough and voila...a clean and cheap plug that requires minimum effort and not permenent alteration to the parts.

[Germain]

The obvious answer is of course, you don't need to plug it. Its a return line, no gas goes to it

I used a rubber fitting I got from the local hardware store, and clamped it so it wouldn't go anywhere.

[914 Bob]

Germain,
Did you plug it at the rear firewall or at the tank?
What type of fitting did you find?

[Germain]

I've plugged the tank and removed the hose. I figure there was no need to have hose running around that could be worn. I had the gas tank out anyway, so it was no big deal. The fitting I used was for a "guard" on steel piping. I just found some ?polyurithane? material that would fit. You could get a steel pipe cover and solder it on, but I don't like having heat near anything that carries gas. I know I could have made it safe and all, but I didn't feel it was worth risking my life if I messed up. HTH, good luck

[72_914]

914 bob-

When I had carbs I used 3/8"id rubber fuel line and it fit over the OD of the large plastic line. I used two clamps to hold it on, worked fine with no leaks. Then I used a 3/8" to 1/4" reducer to get to the right size ruber line for the carbs.