Does anyone know how to get the metal brake pipe out of the body? I was fitting rear shock absorbers and just touched the end at the rear metal fuel pipe and it fractured causing a garage soaked in petrol. I have since taken the fuel tank out and have located the other end of the metal pipe however cant get it out. I can imagine how difficult it is to re fit if the old one can be taken out. More misery to this on going project!! Please help.
spike - 27/3/2009 10:35 AM
Does anyone know how to get the metal brake pipe out of the body? I was fitting rear shock absorbers and just touched the end at the rear metal fuel pipe and it fractured causing a garage soaked in petrol. I have since taken the fuel tank out and have located the other end of the metal pipe however cant get it out. I can imagine how difficult it is to re fit if the old one can be taken out. More misery to this on going project!! Please help.
You mean the fuel pipe then not the brake pipe. This is probably one of the hardest jobs to do on a beetle. You can replace it, in situ. I’ve never tried but you need to run an accellerator cable up thye existing pipe, and secure it, then pull out the old pipe. Then run a new 6mm pipe up the accelerator cable. as an alternative you can run a new copper nickel pipe along the inside of the car on
the passenger side of the floor pan, in the same way as the brake pipe on the other side. You will need to drill a hole at the front of the footwell and at the rear of the floorpan, with appropriate size rubber grommits. This is the easy option.
Yes the fuel pipe, nightmare!!! I have just got it out using a claw hammer with the pipe wrapped around it! Now to imagine how to fit a new peice. Do you know if you can use copper brake pipe as an alternative? I will try and use a type of wire “fish wire” in an attempt to feed it through. I will maybe get to the club meets at sometime. Cheers Mike
spike - 27/3/2009 1:03 PM
Yes the fuel pipe, nightmare!!! I have just got it out using a claw hammer with the pipe wrapped around it! Now to imagine how to fit a new peice. Do you know if you can use copper brake pipe as an alternative? I will try and use a type of wire “fish wire” in an attempt to feed it through. I will maybe get to the club meets at sometime. Cheers Mike
Brake pipe is too thin, you need some 6mm copper nickel pipe or copper from you local motor factors.