Pinto Car Club of America

I picked one up from a salvage yard here in Idaho, pulled it off a mustang with a 2.3 carb'd motor.

Well the one I pulled off the car had a trashed securing nut that screws into the fuel pump. I went to an industrial copper/brass supply and fabrication shop and they re-fabricated the fuel line for me with a new nut, but they used copper instead of steel fuel line.

When I got home to install it, it all matched up fine, however it leaks like a beast around the nut. It doesn't look like it is just coming out around the nut though, but also around the tube that goes through the nut. Is this a defect from when they fabricated it or am I putting it on wrong? I used teflon tape counter-clockwise around the threads.

Quote from: dave1987 on October 26, 2007, 01:36:42 PM
...I used teflon tape counter-clockwise around the threads.

IIRC: That is a flared fitting so the threads have nothing DIRECTLY to do with the sealing, and if there are ANY defects in the mating surfaces, it will leak.

Bill

Ive been told copper is a big no-no for fuel lines. It corrodes real bad and leaks. It was referred to as a "death wish" by one person. I went to a similar place here and just bought a brass barbed fitting and screwd into the pump and used a hose to connect it.  It takes a special fitting not just any brass fitting but the place you're talking about should know what you need.

Pintoguy76. That's what I'm using now, the brass fitting with fuel injection hose connected to it. It works just fine, I just wanted to make some sense of my engine bay by putting an original shaped metal fuel line in.

I could always put the one I pulled from the mustang in it, but it would mean putting it on and taking it off with vise grip pliers.