Petrol Filler Pipe

[schipps]

Originally Posted by WKB

Peter,

The filler pipe I have(which was supplied from Warwick Harrison) was piece of rubber filler hose(genuine gm part), a piece of exhaust pipe with a bend(don't know the angle ) on the end and an unleaded insert to suit a holden fuel cap.





These days an unleaded insert might not be required as you can't buy anything else.

I read a post on another forum using silicon pipe for petrol filler hose. This fella cut a piece of the silicon hose and soak in a small amount petrol and after a couple of hours the silicon had expanded to twice the size.

Warren

Warren,

Great photo. Can you tell me what the two hoses go to?
I think one goes straight to the pipe that is already part of the tank, but where does the other one go to???

[WKB]

Mick,
The black hose goes to the tank beside the filler and the red hose is the line that returns to the carbon canister. I used a pump from a V8 VZ ute. These pumps have a outlet and return, but no vent.

Warren

[WKB]

I attached a side view photo, it gives a better idea of the angle.

[Beejay]

I found a few sources of fuel proof hose, but only the stuff from Earls was flexible enough to work in my situation.

Very expensive stuff!

Ben

[07cob]

Peter

I had some hassle connecting the unleaded neck to the tank as well. There appeared to no concept of alignment at all.

I dd start down the flexible rubber path and ended up with a short length of 2" marine exhaust tube that could handle the fuel but was about as flexible as 750mL bottle of VB. I persisted with it for a short while but ... eventually looked for an alternative.

With no facilities to fabricate the connection myself, I made up a template (from 3/4" flatbar) for what I needed, sketched a diagram and had it made. I ended up with this:



Cheers

Geof