Fuel lines

[tommy long]

Hi Guys,
I'm currently in the process of doing a full resto on my dad's Cerby and am now at the stage where the body is ready to go back on. The one delay that is stopping this next process are the fuel lines.
When the body came off I noticed the fuel lines were in a very poor state so I thought it would be best to replace them while the body is off.
The problem i'm having is I can't seem to find anywhere that can supply new fuel lines for the car.
Would the best solution be to try my local motor factors for some copper lines and rubber fuel lines and make them myself or does anybody know of any companies that have them already made up?

Any info or help will be most appreciative as I would love to get the car on the road for summer so he can enjoy it.

Thanks,

Tom.

[Chuggaboom]

I don't know what my Cerb has for fuel lines but the 1993 Griff I am rebuilding has copper and rubber.

My plumber got me some lengths of pipe, 8 mm IIRC, and some olives to solder in place near the ends to make a ridge for the rubber pipe to slip over and be clamped in place.

Try your nearest plumb centre or online of course.

[tommy long]

Great thanks for that, I'll give them a go tomorrow

[Jhonno]

I went to my local Pirtek type place.. They did all the rubber lines and hard lines for me. Was about £30 iirc.

[Tanguero]

The original hard lines are steel. I replaced mine with the appropriate bore cunifer lines. The original flexible hoses (at least on my car) had swaged compression joints to fit them to the hard lines. When I replaced the flexible hoses, the original style were no longer available so I made them up with stainless braided nitrile rubber hose and the appropriate Goodridge fittings.

[Stunned Monkey]

Are you sure they were steel and not bundy tube? You can buy a decent hand pipe bender on ebay, and the appropriate fittings don't need a flared end to clamp down.

I've entirely re-piped DeLoreans before using bundy tube and fittings bought from A1 Hydraulics in Leicester. As a K-Jet engined car, it runs 5 bar fuel pressure (and the same 957 pump and filter as the cerbera I was pleased to discover!).

I'm not yet familiar with the requirments for the Cerbera but that'd be my immediate port of call.

Martin

[dave tvr]

I'm not sure about the hard lines but I've been replacing the fuel hoses in the engine bay also, I've been using stainless steel braided hoses with anodised caps to finish it off nicely, I've got these from ' Think Automotive' . Very knowledgable and helpful people , could be worth a call ! I was recommended to them by Tim from ACT as he didn't have what I was after.

[Tanguero]

Stunned Monkey said:

Are you sure they were steel and not bundy tube? You can buy a decent hand pipe bender on ebay, and the appropriate fittings don't need a flared end to clamp down.

I've entirely re-piped DeLoreans before using bundy tube and fittings bought from A1 Hydraulics in Leicester. As a K-Jet engined car, it runs 5 bar fuel pressure (and the same 957 pump and filter as the cerbera I was pleased to discover!).

I'm not yet familiar with the requirments for the Cerbera but that'd be my immediate port of call.

Martin

The original Cerbera lines are definitely plain steel, not bundy.
(Usual TVR proviso applies "at least they were on my car!")

[Stunned Monkey]

Seems like a sensible "while you're in there" upgrade then!