My brother called this evening and said he found a shop sorta locally that makes these lines. Had to sliver solder an adapter onto the original fittings, and hopefully the hose is flexible enough to fit, but he was told the material used wasn't actually fuel line, and that the one I just bought was probably worse.

Seems to be quite problem with aftermarket fuel lines these days, as modern fuels will rapidly deteriorate the old style hoses, and he's seen more than one instance where low pressure hose was used in injection systems where it wasn't rated.

So we shall see, my brother is installing the hose this evening.

Peter

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1972 220D ?? miles
1988 300E 200,012
1987 300D Turbo killed 9/25/07, 275,000 miles
1985 Volvo 740 GLE Turobodiesel 218,000
1972 280 SE 4.5 165, 000 - It runs!