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Re: Spitfire Fuel Line

To: Richard Ceraldi-ERC004 <Richard_Ceraldi-ERC004@email.mot.com>
Subject: Re: Spitfire Fuel Line
From: Barry Schwartz <bschwart@pacbell.net>
Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 11:18:17 -0700
Cc: triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
>      I am finishing up the Spitfire restore and was wondering why hard
>plastic tubing is used to go from the fuel tank outlet on the top of the
>tank
>(MKIV) to the metal line that runs along the frame to the engine
>compartment.
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What you are looking at is not the fuel line, but the vapor recovery tubing
that connect's to the carbon cannister.  It was probably used because it
was cheaper and would last longer (mine is still good after 20 some years!

Barry Schwartz (San Diego) bschwart@pacbell.net

72 V6 Spitfire (daily driver)
70 GT6+ (when I don't drive the Spit)
70 Spitfire 

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