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Does the fuel line come prebent? I ask because I have ordered specific lines from the man. for a car and recieved a straight line, the correct length, that I then had to bend to fit. Might as well have bought generic bulk line from Loop road.

The crisscross brakes are to help the car brake straight in the event of a line failure. Works pretty good, I had an MC ring go in the Scirocco(While on a parts run for another car) and it still stopped pretty good. It would hitch to the left just a little then brake straight.

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That's a very good question Chuck. I assumed it would and wondered how they would ship something that oddly shaped without it getting damaged. I'll have to call around and if it isn't pre-bent, I'll likely go with some generic line. Thanks for the tip!

After freezing my petunias off yesterday in the wind, dying in a fiery crash don't sound half bad at the moment...

Jim

Thank you, thank you and one more thank you. With my first race about 10 days away, the Camaro is ready to load into the trailer. I read your posts and it causes me to forget about doing those last minute changes

I agree with Steve...fuel lines in the passenger compartment...WTF

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You got me? I was a little surprised myself when I first started tracing the lines but after crawling under and around the car, I don't see any other place they could have run them. I'd be curious to see if later Honda models still do the same thing. It seems like a good hit in the driver's door could break one of those lines fairly easily.

I wouldn't be so nervous about running new lines if they were outside the car. When it broke, my first thought was to "patch" the current line with some from the yellow CRX until I realized that my "patch" would be inside the passenger compartment. There is no way I'll put a fuel line coupler with its inherent leak potential in there which led me down the path of replacing the entire line.

Jim

I freakin' crying here!!

I knew where you were going with this. That is such a shitty job to do it isn't even funny. I have done it twice now and it does not get any better with experience.

I'll give you something else to look out for, fuel pump. How long has the car sat? CRX #3's fuel pump was a rusty hunk of junk after sitting for ~1 year in the PO's driveway.

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I figured you'd know exactly what I was in for when you saw the picture of the busted fuel line.

I was actually surprised how easily the dash came out but I must admit I got stuck trying to remove the heater core for about an hour. I never noticed that stupid nut on the engine compartment side of the firewall and I finally had to give up and do a search in the EF section of honda-tech <shudder>.

I'm currently fighting the massive temptation to leave all that stuff out in the name of weight savings but it would be nice to have working vents/heat when it gets cold. I lived without heat in the red CRX (busted blower motor) for nearly 2 years but I think I'm getting too old to deal with that crap again.



After seeing the rust on the fuel lines under the interior grommet, I'm expecting the worse. The car only sat for a couple of weeks before I got it but it lived in Wisconsin for 2 years and picked up a fair bit of crud underneath. At this point I'm expecting to replace the entire gas tank with a spare I have so I may not even open the thing up. I also have a spare fuel pump that I'll use so it may not be too bad. Famous last words, of course!

The fun part should be draining the (nearly full!!!) tank that the previous owner was kind enough to leave me with. Buy hey, that's got to be at least $25 in gas! Score!

I'm hoping I get a spare moment this week to get underneath the car to see how bad it is otherwise I won't have any time to work on it for a couple of weeks. At the rate I'm going, I may wind up missing the next RallyX!

I'm looking at it as practice for tearing into the red CRX this summer. Or I might just sell the thing, I haven't decided yet.

Jim

The hardest part about dropping the tank is the lines from above. Since you are replacing those, it shouldnt be that bad.

The tank has 2 straps with the bolts at the rear of the car. Remove those and it falls right out.

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As someone who recently replaced a fuel vent hose on my Volvo and had to drop the tank, the less gas you have in there the better. I had less than a half gallon in there and it was light as a feather - AB

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Yea, it doesn't look that bad except for possibly draining the tank. I'm a little worried that the drain plug will be rusted shut and I'll wind up with a face full of gas after busting it loose or, more likely, breaking it off.

I was halfway hoping the killer winds we had yesterday would drop a tree on the car saving me from further torture. No such luck as it was...

I guess I can be thankful that it isn't a Miata gas tank. Those are a *real* pain to remove.

Jim

ok so what is going on with this??

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