Fuel Pipe Repair Inside Tank

I have discovered a crack in the fuel pipe on the tap inside the tank. I have seen various posts about repair of a carb overflow tube, but not one inside the tank.






how is the pipe fixed to the tap? Can i remove it and replace it?

Can I solder it? I'm assuming it is brass.

If you solder it there is a high possibility of blocking it internally. Do you have any thin wall fuel tube you could slide over it.

mikeranger said:

If you solder it there is a high possibility of blocking it internally. Do you have any thin wall fuel tube you could slide over it.

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I thought of that and was thinking to put a length of electrical wire down the tube.

Do you mean plastic/rubber thin walled tube, or brass? I don't here.

SeanFD said:

I thought of that and was thinking to put a length of electrical wire down the tube.

Do you mean plastic/rubber thin walled tube, or brass? I don't here.

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If you put unstripped wire inside it, the coating on the wire would likely melt during soldering and if you use stripped wire, even solid core, any solder seeping through the crack might stick to it. If you could find an aluminum rod that size it should work. All that's happening right now is your reserve function has been eliminated by the crack allowing fuel in at the bottom of the long tube. It should be brass like the float bowl tubes so it should solder easily after a good cleaning and use of flux paste.

You might try a piece of heat shrink tubing over it.

SeanFD said:

I thought of that and was thinking to put a length of electrical wire down the tube.

Do you mean plastic/rubber thin walled tube, or brass? I don't here.

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Plastic or rubber tube

mike in idaho said:

You might try a piece of heat shrink tubing over it.

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I saw a post elsewhere where that was done in a float bowl, and, after a shortish while, the heat-shrink had increased in size and was no longer sealing the crack.

I would solder it. Unless you gob a bunch of solder in one spot while doing it the likelihood of blockage is minimal.