96 4.2 petrol leak

[harry henderson]

Hi everyone, just seeing if anyone could help me with some advice. I parked up on the driveway last night and started pushing it into the garage and saw that it had just started emptying it's fuel tank. I quickly jacked it up and emptied the fuel tank and on looking I can see that it's the rubber hose between the fuel tank and the fuel pump that has split open. Looked like a simple fix until the hose gets to the tank and it goes straight in without any fittings. So if anyone knows how much this would roughly cost to have fixed I would be very grateful
Also, if I was to temporarily fix the hose with wrap letting the hose fill with fuel before connecting to pump just so I could get to garage, would this damage the engine etc? Thanks all, any info greatly appreciated.

[Supateg]

The hose in question is the static feed from the tank to the pump (no pressure)
The jubilee clip on the tank is just possible to reach from under the car, once all the 'silicone bung' is cut off.
Sorry no temporary fix, this is just a question of safety.
If you can't do it on the drive, then it will have to be trailered to a garage.
It's a simple job to replace, but being where it is access wise it is a tad tricker to do.
Hth

[harry henderson]

Thanks for that. I did folks it to the tank and it does look like it is just silconed in to the tank with large dollop of silicone. So if I carefully pull this out there is a fitting? If I do manage to fix if I prime the hose and fit straight to pump so there's no air in his could I just start the engine up without damaging anything? Thanks for the help.

[jammy_basturd]

The silicon you can see is covering up the hole in the body as the tube goes through the boot wall into the boot. The tank is in the boot. If you remove that silicon then you should see where the tube passes into the boot and the fixing on the tank. I assume from what Supateg says the fixing is just a jubilee clip.

[harry henderson]

I understand now, you can tell I'm new to TVRs. Looks like I'm going straight to pirtek in the morning. Thanks for the help.

[jammy_basturd]

I'd just get another length of fuel hose, rather than something expensive from Pirtek. To be honest, as it's just clamped on with jubilee clips (actually - use proper fuel clips, not jubilee clips which can 'pinch' the hose), then if you get something fancy with a braided outer or some such then you're going to have problems clamping it to the pump and tank.

There's no heat back there that the hose needs to be protected from, so just £1 of fuel hose of the correct inner diameter will be fine.

[harry henderson]

All fixed now, £7.20 and a bit of ball ache. Cheers for the advice.

[Supateg]

Yes it's one of those simple in principle jobs; in practice it's a pain due to access.
From your first post I thought you weren't diy orientated! -sorry!

Now you need to check the fuel supply and return hoses in the engine bay for piece of mind. You probably notice the output of the fuel pump going to a hard line. This generally terminates around the bulkhead area (different years, different places)
Feed to the fuel rail and return from the fuel regulator need inspecting, going on the condition of the tank hose.
Quite a few posts in here about this little job. Same again I afraid, parts cost cheap, labour intensive!
-Craig

[Byker28i]

You need to check the rest of the fuel lines if that one has cracked, especially the ones in the engine bay.

[harry henderson]

I'm going to give it a proper check this weekend. I was very lucky with the hose splitting, it pretty much gave up on my drive so no need for tow truck or fire engine.

[The_Edge]

Byker28i said:

You need to check the rest of the fuel lines if that one has cracked, especially the ones in the engine bay.

Don't faff about with the fuel lines - get them done end-to-end

[Jhonno]

The_Edge said:

Don't faff about with the fuel lines - get them done end-to-end

This..

Out of interest.. What dia and length of pipe did you use to replace that feed?

[harry henderson]

I just swapped like for like and it was half inch rubber fuel hose with a jubilee clip at each end. The old had slit on one of the bends from inside out and just perished.

[Byker28i]

The_Edge said:

Byker28i said:

You need to check the rest of the fuel lines if that one has cracked, especially the ones in the engine bay.

Don't faff about with the fuel lines - get them done end-to-end

Yup I agree. I had everything replaced when the body was lifted for the chassis restoration. There's a few caught fire recently and I didn't think it worth the risk, plus easy to get done whilst it was all apart