[T3] Hard line size

[Brian Fye]

Thanks Dave!
On Jan 6, 2014 4:45 PM, "Dave Hall" <dave at hallvw.clara.co.uk> wrote:

> I believe it's 6mm OD before '68, and takes 5mm hose.  From '68 they
> standardised on 8mm OD to suit the FI hose for the tunnel pipes, so the
> fixed fuel pipe is 8mm OD and takes 7mm hose.  To get round the mismatch of
> pipes, the metal piece through the front engine tinware is 8mm reducing to
> 6mm OD on carbed cars.    Having said that, I don't think mine has that
> special pipe - I got 5.5mm bore hose from VW, and managed to get that on to
> the floorpan pipe - bit of a struggle though!  That was maybe 5 years ago -
> no problem yet!  I've never actually measured the OD though.
>
> Dave
> UK VW Type 3&4 Club
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> Does anyone know the OD of the stock fuel hard line on a carb'd car?
> Thanks!
>
> Brian Fye
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