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Offline FastTimes

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Fuel Line??
« on: September 06, 2010, 07:04:36 pm »
hey im pretty new to having my chevy truck on the road, after sitting up for about a year. its a 87 with a stock 350 v8. it has two gas tanks, i recently decided to fill my driver side tank and when i did fuel began to pour out from underneath. After further investigating i found the holes it was pouring from. Check out the pics and tell me whats missing? Currently i have them plugged them with rubber stops.



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Offline VileZambonie

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Re: Fuel Line??
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2010, 08:03:56 pm »
The fuel lines aren't there. That's the tank switching valve.
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Re: Fuel Line??
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2010, 09:54:34 pm »
Well it looks like some of them are there. I think thats what that butchery job with the metal line that still has a flare nut on it that serves no purpose what so ever!
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Offline FastTimes

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Re: Fuel Line??
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2010, 07:20:56 pm »
Quote from: VileZambonie on September 06, 2010, 08:03:56 pm
The fuel lines aren't there. That's the tank switching valve.

thanks for the replies so it was just a piece of fuel line going from one end to the other?
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Offline fred75

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Re: Fuel Line??
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2010, 08:50:45 pm »
  Sounds like your right tank skips the switching valve and runs direct. Looks like the left tank is still connected to the switching valve, and the feed and vent lines that would run from the valve up front have been removed so the right tank could run direct.
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Re: Fuel Line??
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2010, 05:10:38 pm »
Your switching valve was bypassed.  The drivers tank doesn't connect to the feed and return lines any more and now your are dumping the gas on the ground through the valve.
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