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Originally Posted by Frankie
I'm in the process of replacing my fuel hoses with viton fuel hoses. I'm stumped if I can should replace high pressure fuel hose that goes from spin on filter to the IP with the viton hose. Let me describe the old fuel hose: it is clear colored, stiff, not flexible. It is not made of rubber, therefore I do not think that biodiesel will degrade it. Should I just leave the pressure hose alone?
If I did replace it with viton (a flexible hose) is that a safe decision??
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From what I've read, it is nylon, and BioD won't affect it. It also probably isn't something you really want to mess with -- I haven't looked it up, but I'll bet there's some mildly complicated procedure to purging it of any introduced particles (bigger than the filter would let through) that might potentially gum up the IP or an injector. I suspect they used a different, more durable, material for those particular lines because they didn't want them to be a routine field maintence item.