"Mitch Haley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> Loren Faeth wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Synflex is somebody's brand name for the black plastic high strength 
> > stuff.  in the 70s, it was new, and was used for small hydraulic lines.
> 
> Late 70's Saab CIS systems were entirely plumbed with the stuff except for 
> clear 
> lines to the injectors. I never saw a failure in the black stuff. They'd run 
> one 
> straight piece from the fuel pump to the fuel filter with a banjo on each 
> end, a 
> short one from filter to distributor, and a smaller return line from the fuel 
> distributor to the tank. You never had to worry about rusty or rotting fuel 
> lines. The two main problem areas were the rubber elbow between the fuel 
> filler 
> pipe and the tank, and the 2" rubber hose connecting the in tank strainer to 
> the 
> fuel pump inlet.

Sounds like the "hard" black plastic tubing that VW used between the
fuel pump and the engine bay.  Then in the engine bay itself it is all
regular rubber FI hose.

Allan


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