http://www.news.com.au/national-news...-1226743285498

 

WOW oil leak or fuel leak ? looks like fuel leak would cause that kind of incident. very bad very sad for owner hope he was ok. The car is spares only now hope he is insured.

 

Geez......now we know what started the bush fires!

 

Oh yea .. could have been fuel too! Sorry.

 

shame poor guy - hopefully he know babaloubie who'll sort him out

 

That could have been me , I had a fuel hose split open , I pulled up to a stop light and I smelled raw gas , opened the drivers door and then leaned over to look under the car to see if my car was dripping fuel , it wasn't dripping , it was peeing fuel .
I suggest to everyone , change out the rubber fuel lines if you have not already . The 1989 is now 24 years old .

 

Do you recall which of your lines failed? Also, did it fail at a crimp or did the actual hose rupture?


Here's another good thread regarding the possibility of fuel line problems on our 964s.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsc...intenance.html

 

Good link, Vandit

Pelican Parts only sells fuel hose in bulk...is this an acceptable fix to cut the crimp off the tubing and clamp a hose to the tubing, and obtaining banjo fitting with a hose barb on it for the other end? Wouldn't think so, but if the rubber is going bad, why take the trouble to replace the steel tubing?

Weird, there's not much info after searching the RL 964 forum.

Actually, this a good post on some of the parts involved
https://rennlist.com/forums/10579187-post6.html

 

I would have thought a hydraulics shop would be able to re-hose the lines with new rubber and crimps. Basically like how you can get the big oil hose from filter console to thermostat redone.

 

Any good "Aeroquip" here in the US will have everything you need to make replacement fuel lines as well as oil lines. They can also show you how to buy the parts and make the lines yourself. It is not that hard.

 

It was a line near the firewall , it split open as if cut by a razor blade .

 

Mine was #14 on the diagram posted in Mojo's link - a section of the rubber had blistered and was quite soft. Could have burst at any time. As a result I replaced all the engine compartment hoses/lines.

 

Mine was #22 that the rubber was swollen like a water balloon. I replaced all 5 hoses as a precaution.

 

This thread has made me take a closer look at the fuel hoses in the engine compartment, all of which I currently have removed from the car.

A couple of things i've noticed regarding my original equipment, 22 year old, fuel lines.

None of the rubber hoses look swollen or otherwise deteriorated.

On several of them, the metal sleeve at the coupling between the fitting and rubber hose can spin with minimal effort.

^metal sleeve can be spun.



On a couple of them, the rubber hose can be rotated on the fitting w/ only a slight effort.


FPR and associates hoses


^I can spin the hose on the fitting w/ only slight effort.


On those last two points, i'm thinking it points to a fuel line that's on its way to being tired.

What do you guys think? Get the lines rebuilt or replaced?

I noticed some of the fuel line rebuild threads on other subforums such as 928 subforum end up w/ people using normal screw-type clamps on their fuel hoses. I don't want to do that. If I rebuilt these, I want to rebuild them using crimped on clamps.

 

Definitely adding this to my winter check list. If the rubber seems fine on mine, but the sleeve spins, I'd take it to a good trusted hydraulic shop and hear what he says.