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[LS1LX]

I use Earls braided line, find it pretty good, the problem you are facing is due to the age of the rubber, as it breaks down the vapours come thru, hence the smell.
The blue hose like Tiny has is probably the socketless hose? Care to confirm Tiny?

If getting braided, get good quality like the Earls, Aeroquip, Russel, Speedflow etc stuff that is made for EFI, burst pressures normally 250-350PSI and your only running 40-65psi dependtant of what EFI motor.

Dont buy the super cheap braided stuff for low psi, thats when you'll be getting vapour fumes.

[Toranamat69]

I use all speedflow gear these days - but the other top brands are good too. I mainly go speedflow because I like their nice bends on their fittings compared with earls's.

Those Speedflow braided hoses(depending on size) actually have burst pressure in the range of 2,000 to 5,000 psi according to their catalog and yeah only being used to 60psi.

I would actually put my money on the fact your LH does not have a charcoal canister on the fuel breather pipe as to why you have the fuel smell - this is common on cars pre charcoal canisters.

I have also been told by some places that the braided lines with rubber internals will eventully break down with fuel in them (was told this after fitting all of mine).

They reckon'd the teflon inner stuff was the only totally imprevious type but then again - it was not the sort of place I would take my car to be worked on. You hear a lot of funny stuff over the years.

I know a heck of a lot of people using the regular braided line for their fuel systsems for years with no problems.


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[LS1LX]

I only use earls because I get a 40% list with our account.