Thread: did 67 ford merc use Plastic Fuel lines?

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??? Going over my new toy, 67 Merc Monterey, i noticed it has a Plastic (not rubber) fuel line running from the front inner fender back to the gas tank. There are short rubber hoses between the plastic line & the hard metal lines at either end.

My first thought was this has got to be a hack this should be a metal line... But i posted over on a ford board, and one guy told me he has had several 67 Galaxies that all had this plastic fuel line.

Can anyone confirm this as origonal?

Should i be worried about this? It kind of freaks me out... InlineTube wants $150 for a pre-bent stainless steel one... Not sure i want to pay that much. What would you do?

Replace with steel, replace with rubber, replace with braided, or leave it alone cause its obviously been like that for years and years and hasn't had any problems up to now?

Thanks!
Ben

I'm not shure about that being stock but, I myself wouldn't fix it if it wosent leaking, I would wait till it broke, that's just me though.

It should have a metal line from the tank to behind the left front tire then a rubber hose that goes along the inner fender to the fuel pump,thats the way my 65 country squire is setup and the 67 country sedan I parted was the same way

J Y Jeff is right. It should be just as he says. Ford Motor Company didn't start using plastic lines until the advent of Electronic Fuel Injection. Even my 83 T-bird used plastic but it was Throtle body injected. Prior to that my 85 Mustang Gt used metal other than at the joints. Of course the 85 was still a Holley carburated motor.

Seems to me that metal has a much lower chance of shattering at contact with a rock or something else fun. I would just buy 20$ of 1/2 steel line and bend it myself. But maybe thats just me.

Do you think joining the ends on a few legnths of the generic 6ft tubes from schucks would be ok?

The car is 19foot long, so we are taking about a pretty good span- at least 10 feet for the straight part...