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Old 10-23-2016, 01:12 PM
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Anyone knows what this can possibly be? It was installed between fuel filter and engine. My boy thinks it's was used to do something with fuel economy or to use with lead gas. This is a second engine in this car, so I dnt know if it was an original part or not. My used part guy said it's not stock!! What are ur thoughts?
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Thats not a stock part.
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Yup, looks like the old "cow magnet" myth...
Old 10-23-2016, 04:49 PM
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"Cow Magnet" adapter is the colloquial term for "double flare - double compression - double barbed hose mending adapter," a.k.a. "cluster f..."
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Vader,

You have OBVIOUSLY never lived in the rural South.

Here's THE FACTS (I abuse the word in flagrante delicto):


The PO of this car, much like the youtube poster, had plainly spent a significant portion of his life underneath cow patties, seeking out (and evidently finding....) the very best psylilocybe cyanescens.
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Ooooh thx,my boy actually knows what he talking about!! No I never spent more than 3 months in da south. Does such appartus works??
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NO. If it did, the manufactures would be installing them at the factory.
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Originally Posted by T-IROC87
Ooooh thx,my boy actually knows what he talking about!! No I never spent more than 3 months in da south. Does such appartus works??
Better than your spell checker but no it does nothing.
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Someone spent way too much on fittings at the local hardware store to destroy what was probably a perfectly good fuel hose.
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may just be bodged fule leak fix ! BIN IT!
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Re: what is this

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NO. If it did, the manufactures would be installing them at the factory.

Mythbusters tested these....busted.




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