Dear fuel line

[chadsmeltzer]

Please quit bothering me.



Guess what came back to haunt me tonight? Yup, cut the fuel line again, we thought for sure we fixed it. Timing was great too. Dacey was dropping me off at Joshes on our way to Ohio. As we pulled into his driveway we smelt gas and it was just pouring out. Dacey was supposed to drive my Jeep home, then go to her apartment. We were in BC, she lives west of 131 and north of 94, complete wrong way for us.
I was going to leave my Jeep at Joshes because it was getting late and we still had to drive a couple hundred miles. Then on the way to Dacey's, Joe calls us because of some lie that made us drive out of the way EVEN MORE!!!. On our way back through Kalamazoo, Joshes dad calls and offers to look at/fix my Jeep, but we have to bring the keys to him. Well that is out of the way AGAIN.

Let's review.
Going from Richland to Ohio. Joshes house in BC is out of the way, but I ride with him so I don't have a choice. Then on our way Northwest of Kalamazoo, we have to go to Joes, which was back where we came from. Then we continue to Kalamazoo, then BACK to north of BC, then (josh doesn't know it) we ALMOST ran out of gas, the gauge was way past E and I felt it studder once or twice, in the middle of nowhere. Then we continue our journey to the black hole of Ohio.


Let's review the review:
I drive a Jeep and it sucks.


For those of you who are newer, my Jeep is in fact haunted and will do what it wants, when it wants. I will not even begin to tell you all the other things it has done, let alone all the stuff it did just today. This is why my Jeep is not for sale anymore, I don't want the burden to be on you. My Jeep chose me, and I must take it down.



I think I need sleep, this will probably look stupid tomorrow.


:surrender::Suicide::rip::angel:

[spieg]

My offer still stands. Ill give you $20 and a happy meal and take the burden of your jeep off your hands. Let me know.:stickjab:

[havensov]

Time to start work on that turning Timmy into a electric Jeep. Never have to worry about gas again?!

[chadsmeltzer]

Both Josh and his dad also offered me $20 for it too.

I think I might take $20 from a bunch of people and just set my Jeep there, what you can take, you can have.

[spieg]

Hey I said $20 AND a happy meal. I think they have Alvin and chipmunks toys right now.

[chadsmeltzer]

I have never been a McDonalds kinda kid, make it Wendy's and I will think about it.

[skoalman269]

haha i think your about the toy thing

[ArcticCat843]

Spieg...maybe we can work something out.....Do you ever want it to be registered as road legal again? Ill strip a few things i want....You can have the rest and then chad can say it was stolen....just saying

[lowridinpontiac]

where does the line keep breaking at? I happen to know a really good Jeep Technician :)

[chadsmeltzer]

where does the line keep breaking at? I happen to know a really good Jeep Technician :)

How often have you seen a Jeep with a fuel line ran in the wrong spot? It's been a while since I looked at it closely, I will try my best...

The line goes down the drivers side frame rail and just in front of the axle where it has a fitting and becomes a plastic line inside a rubber hose, which then goes to the gas tank. Two summers ago I bottomed out hard at Silver Lake and the track bar bracket smashed the fitting up against the frame (maybe a bracket off the frame, I can't remember for sure). Not wanted to drop the tank (and being on the dunes) I cut the fitting off and used fuel hose and clamps to splice it together. Next time at Silver Lake that rubber line was cut, along with an EVAP hose. I replaced it again and that happened maybe two more times.

When I was doing the 8.8 swap, I told JCR about it so they could build a different mount to clear the gas hose. They were confused so we went and looked under a couple other TJ's, none of the other lines were ran like mine. I want to say all the other had the line follow the frame down a couple more inches and then go behind that bracket. There is no way I can think of that line was bent, and I bought the Jeep bone stock so I am willing to bet the previous owner had nothing to do with it.

After the axle swap I still had the problem. I took it to s shop to have it fixed and they didn't know what to do without replacing the entire line and dropping the tank. Not wanting to spend $300+ for that I said screw it. After a few more times cutting it, we bent the metal line as much as we could out of the way. It was fine for a few months up until last night. The roads I had to go down are HORRIBLE, we actually bottomed out my Jeep a couple times on some of the bumps. I didn't have time to look to see exactly what happened (I was on my way to Ohio and it was cold). I don't know if the line slipped off somehow (there are four clamps holding it on, so not likely) or if I cut the line again.

I think that sums it up, just throw in a few more times cutting it and it's about complete.

[lowridinpontiac]

hmmm... so are you connecting the plastic line to the metal line with rubber hose? Cuz that fuel line is running about 50psi for fuel pressure and could definitely cause leak issues. I might have some braided fuel line left over from my jeep to reroute the line to the tank from the frame.

[chadsmeltzer]

Yes, but its not just bursting. I know for a fact it's getting cut by being pinched repeatedly. I thought about cutting the bracket down some, but I don't exactly want a bunch of sparks near a gas leak. Plus, that still doesn't solve why the gas line is ran there.

[lowridinpontiac]

so then the track bar bracket on the axle is hitting the fuel lines at full compression? you don't happen to have pics of the setup do you?

[chadsmeltzer]

These are the best I have. I am in Lima right now and my Jeep is at Josh's.

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r54/chadsmeltzer/silver%20lake/silverlake019.jpg
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r54/chadsmeltzer/silver%20lake/silverlake006-1.jpg

[chadsmeltzer]

You can see where the paint chipped off the top of the bracket where it was hitting it.

[lowridinpontiac]

wow, thats some pretty tight clearance right there now i see why it keeps cutting it. that track bar and bracket don't have enough clearance, its too close to your gas tank. It also looks like the trac bar is binding in the bracket. so the long term fix would be to cut and repostion that trac bar bracket a little more forward from what i can see in the pic, unless there is enough steel line to make it bend a little further back than what it is and use a longer rubber hose and zip tie it back.

[ArcticCat843]

that pic was before we bent it back...it is alot further back now....And has been fine like that for months....until sunday night that is...

oh and since that pic the trac bar was cut and rewelded to help the binding

[chadsmeltzer]

I guess the hose looks like it just burst, he put a little bit thicker line on it for now. It's convenient to break down at Josh's when his dad is bored.:clap: