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Hey,

Has anyone ever had troubles with their fuel hose swelling up and braking apart.. I talked to my mech and he reckons he only ever uses factory fuel hose cause all aftermarket stuff swells up within hours... and he is right, i tried some fuel hose from a hydraulics shop that said it can be submerged in fuel no problems.. and it swelled up and broke apart within 2 hours...

I am wondering about the blue speedflow hose... might be some better quality, but none of that cheap black stuff works either.. its only made to hold fuel on the inside... What can i do??

( this is in relation to inside the tank )

cheers

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pleaase fellas...

tomoro i will goto nissan and ask for some of their hose they use inside a tank but i dont know how ill go.. fail that ill buy every kind i can and do a test

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Get the nissan stuff - UAS has it.

About $70/metre though. I used about 0.5 metre I think..

Otherwise I think Nissan has it in 1m lengths. It has blue writing on it and feels different to other hose. Feels more flexible. I dont think it has uv rating but like you say can handle fuel on the outside.

Mackay sell some but I dont think it is EFi rated.

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It has been talked about a bit on SAU, do look around.

People do try and use the factory allotted amount, as its of butyl inner / outer construction. Unlike the "inner" only of normal fuel hose.

I almost ordered a few meters of it from Nissan with some mates, but worked around it.

That’s pretty trick, UAS having it on hand.

Someone on here used some of that "fuel resistant, clear with single ply construction" stuff you see at hydraulic hose places as insulation between an 044 and cradle. Iv also seen it used for the pickup... not for the high pressure OUT though.

As for food for thought, some ppl have talked of stripping the metal braid off of Teflon hose (Speedflow, Earls etc) and hose clamping it on.

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ok i went to nissan today and they said they have never heard of fuel hose inside tank being any different and looked on nissfast and found the piece i want and for 3" of it, costs $65. So im going to try the wreckers tomoro and just rape some VL commo or something cause we have no import wreckers!!!

cheers for the help guys, ill try repco too

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