Please help! Gas line is leaking badly! What are my options?
#1
Please help! Gas line is leaking badly! What are my options?
I've got a 1996 Acura GSR.
My lines are rusted to hell (Thank you, Honda engineering team, for covering them with some cheap plastic covering that holds all kinds of salt and crap in them) - Photo here - https://i.imgur.com/g1KOG5y.png
My options look to be -
1. Take it to a shop, pay over $750 in labor with parts. I've read and heard people having to drop the gas tank and parts in the front to replace the entire lines.. A Honda dealership was quoting over $1000.
2. Devise some way to cut out the the rusted out parts and make a compressed fitting. From what I can see it's impossible to cut the rusted lines without bending them. Unless I'm mistaken? A basic pipe cutting tool will not fit in between the lines.
I have 2 jack stands and a simple jack.
Can anyone please advise?
My lines are rusted to hell (Thank you, Honda engineering team, for covering them with some cheap plastic covering that holds all kinds of salt and crap in them) - Photo here - https://i.imgur.com/g1KOG5y.png
My options look to be -
1. Take it to a shop, pay over $750 in labor with parts. I've read and heard people having to drop the gas tank and parts in the front to replace the entire lines.. A Honda dealership was quoting over $1000.
2. Devise some way to cut out the the rusted out parts and make a compressed fitting. From what I can see it's impossible to cut the rusted lines without bending them. Unless I'm mistaken? A basic pipe cutting tool will not fit in between the lines.
I have 2 jack stands and a simple jack.
Can anyone please advise?
Last edited by Vallamost; 11-23-2015 at 07:12 PM.
#2
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Re: Please help! Gas line is leaking badly! What are my options?
You dont have a junk yard you can get the lines from! around here that would be around a few hundred bucks with parts installed at the junk yard.
Check online if you can find the lines for a resonable price and have them replaced.
Check online if you can find the lines for a resonable price and have them replaced.
#3
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Re: Please help! Gas line is leaking badly! What are my options?
From someone(me) who removed all the stock fuel lines to run -AN lines for race gas, it's beyond frustrating and that's with the engine out. The best, cheapest and fastest is cut and flare in a new section, a garage won't charge too much for that. Is this your winter beater?/how far north do you live those brake lines aren't lasting a lot longer if you see another winter. If it's just a beater weight the cost of a cheap EK against the labour and any potential future issues. Cheap clean running civic's are maybe 1.7K here and that's on the higher end.
@fastgsr I think anyone would be VERY hard pressed to find a junkyard that lets you bring jacks and lift the cars of the ground, around here the cars are taken off their wheels and dropped on the ground pretty much running anything under it. They have all sorts of insurance liability's we have to wear reflective vests all sorts of stuff, plus everything is rusted to **** here after a few days in the yard.
@fastgsr I think anyone would be VERY hard pressed to find a junkyard that lets you bring jacks and lift the cars of the ground, around here the cars are taken off their wheels and dropped on the ground pretty much running anything under it. They have all sorts of insurance liability's we have to wear reflective vests all sorts of stuff, plus everything is rusted to **** here after a few days in the yard.
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Re: Please help! Gas line is leaking badly! What are my options?
From someone(me) who removed all the stock fuel lines to run -AN lines for race gas, it's beyond frustrating and that's with the engine out. The best, cheapest and fastest is cut and flare in a new section, a garage won't charge too much for that. Is this your winter beater?/how far north do you live those brake lines aren't lasting a lot longer if you see another winter. If it's just a beater weight the cost of a cheap EK against the labour and any potential future issues. Cheap clean running civic's are maybe 1.7K here and that's on the higher end.
Do you know how the shop would cut and flare a new section?
I can't think of or find a tool that could cut one of the lines as they have almost no room next to them. But I'm up for this option if it's than $200 This is just a fun project car that I want to sell off to a friend. I have reliable transportation already.
#5
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Re: Please help! Gas line is leaking badly! What are my options?
Thank you. I'm in the Midwest, we already have snow and cold weather
Do you know how the shop would cut and flare a new section?
I can't think of or find a tool that could cut one of the lines as they have almost no room next to them. But I'm up for this option if it's than $200 This is just a fun project car that I want to sell off to a friend. I have reliable transportation already.
Do you know how the shop would cut and flare a new section?
I can't think of or find a tool that could cut one of the lines as they have almost no room next to them. But I'm up for this option if it's than $200 This is just a fun project car that I want to sell off to a friend. I have reliable transportation already.
The only experience of doing flaring I have is from when I went to school, it's frustrating you can watch a video on you tube it's easy if you're patient. As for cost generic gas line is cheap it's the skill of doing it that takes time/if you have to pay someone, you may want to reconsider this project imho.
You pull the line down(very gently) from the top clip and cut the section with the tool provided in the kit. Here's the one I have SAE Standard Bubble ISO Metric Double Single Tube Brake Line Flare Flaring KIT | eBay
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Re: Please help! Gas line is leaking badly! What are my options?
The only experience of doing flaring I have is from when I went to school, it's frustrating you can watch a video on you tube it's easy if you're patient. As for cost generic gas line is cheap it's the skill of doing it that takes time/if you have to pay someone, you may want to reconsider this project imho.
You pull the line down(very gently) from the top clip and cut the section with the tool provided in the kit. Here's the one I have SAE Standard Bubble ISO Metric Double Single Tube Brake Line Flare Flaring KIT | eBay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNePrGR1D-s
You pull the line down(very gently) from the top clip and cut the section with the tool provided in the kit. Here's the one I have SAE Standard Bubble ISO Metric Double Single Tube Brake Line Flare Flaring KIT | eBay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNePrGR1D-s
Thanks, I'm confident I can flare it. I'm able to rent a decent flaring for free. I just don't understand how part of the line can be pulled down. Wouldn't I need to replace the whole line? Or what do you mean by pull it down?
#7
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Re: Please help! Gas line is leaking badly! What are my options?
those plastic bands that hold all 4 lines pry them upon and lift out the line that you need to fix, if the whole line is fucked just snip where it's bad.
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#8
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Re: Please help! Gas line is leaking badly! What are my options?
From someone(me) who removed all the stock fuel lines to run -AN lines for race gas, it's beyond frustrating and that's with the engine out. The best, cheapest and fastest is cut and flare in a new section, a garage won't charge too much for that. Is this your winter beater?/how far north do you live those brake lines aren't lasting a lot longer if you see another winter. If it's just a beater weight the cost of a cheap EK against the labour and any potential future issues. Cheap clean running civic's are maybe 1.7K here and that's on the higher end.
@fastgsr I think anyone would be VERY hard pressed to find a junkyard that lets you bring jacks and lift the cars of the ground, around here the cars are taken off their wheels and dropped on the ground pretty much running anything under it. They have all sorts of insurance liability's we have to wear reflective vests all sorts of stuff, plus everything is rusted to **** here after a few days in the yard.
@fastgsr I think anyone would be VERY hard pressed to find a junkyard that lets you bring jacks and lift the cars of the ground, around here the cars are taken off their wheels and dropped on the ground pretty much running anything under it. They have all sorts of insurance liability's we have to wear reflective vests all sorts of stuff, plus everything is rusted to **** here after a few days in the yard.
Yea i forget most junk yards dont have a garrage, over here at our local honda parts lot in the junk yard they have a small garrage with lift and a cert. mech that does all the labor for anything neaded from the junk yard installed, i had them install a power steering conversion in my civic for $250 with parts. They dont charge much at all to and the mech is super good and fast. But yea i must of forgot not all yards have that.
#10
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Re: Please help! Gas line is leaking badly! What are my options?
Solid steel vs rubber that's the issue as a temp fix sure but long term it's iffy, I know that later part of the line is rubber. I wouldn't want something rubber under the car
#11
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Re: Please help! Gas line is leaking badly! What are my options?
Now you could probably get away with rubber lines for a short time while you find used replacements. You could run the rubber hose inside a pipe to make it last longer. Just an idea.
#12
Re: Please help! Gas line is leaking badly! What are my options?
What do you recommend snipping the line with? Is there a special steel line cutting that won't bend the line?
#13
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If you undo all of them it will be MORE than enough, something should come with the kid to do that. or just google it I only have experience with -AN line.
#14
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Thanks. Can you give me the name of what the tool is to clip the lines, I'm happy to google it I just don't know what it's called.
#15
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Re: Please help! Gas line is leaking badly! What are my options?
a generic metal tube cutter from a parts store, just tell them what you're doing they should be capable enough there's no real name for it.
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#17
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you "should" the problem is I just undid them as if to complete remove it all they did come down a fait bit tho before I dropped the tank. buy the tool and undo the clips if it's not enough room return it but i'm pretty confident you'll be ok just undo any brackets/clips under the car.
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