I love the esoteric intricacies of classic procars... There is a rubber hose that leads from the fuel filler neck to the gas tank on my 1970 Cadillac Superior. It has begun to leak. I went to NAPA today, and they don't have anything with a 90 degree bend in it that is fuel safe. They had a flex hose that was wire wound inside, but it too folded when arced to 90 degrees. Any suggestions on where to find a fuel-safe hose that has a 90 degree bend in it? Judging by how low the hose attaches to the tank, this hose must be constantly filled, so it is no surprise the old hose is starting to leak. Damn new gas formulations.
Fuel filler hose
- Thread starter James Maguire
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Danny Ryder - Deceased - 1962 - 2021
PCS Life Member
Best suggestion I have is ck with a place that builds custom truck bodies being they have to make up their hoses also.
Brendan Martin
PCS Member
This may be a long shot but try the Hose Connection in Tiverton R.I. phone is (401-624-2921) Good luck.
Daniel Scully
PCS Member
Some times a work around is go to a muffler shop and have them bend the angles out of pipe and connect the ends with the available straight rubber gas hose.
I agree with Daniel. you get one bent out of a tail pipe and splice it in with the straight piece of rubber. you'll only get in trouble when you try to remove the bumper bracket that is bolted just behind it. but even then with the steel you should have room for the wrench to hold the head of the bolt with out taking off the filler. don't forget your vent hose might as well change it now to. all the early 60 cars have a steel filler spliced in this way.
This is what I've been doing when it's time to replace the rubber hose section for the fuel neck:
1) Remove the rubber hose in one complete section.
2) Take to local exhaust shop that has a bender.
3) Give rubber hose to shop and have them fab one up out of the correct size exhaust tubing.
4) Cut off section you will need to reattch to top of filler and at tank.
5) Use hose clamps and reattach.
6) Now will last the rest of the life of the procar.
Frank Redmond
John Burchfield
PCS Life Member
James are you sure your entire hose is rubber? My '67 and '67 Superiors have a metal filler pipe connected to the tank and filler neck by short rubber hoses. I had to replace the tank end hose on my '65 a couple of years ago and the Napa store had a short length of neoprene that worked fine. When I told the guy what I needed, he knew that I needed neoprene rubber that wouldn't be deteriorated by gasoline.