Broken fuel line, dont know how but it happened seconds after start up...

So far current parts tally is

• Battery
• Distributer (will get pics of it later, its ugly)
• probably carb.
• spark plug wires
• heater hose?
• every wire in the engine bay
• air cleaner assembally
• brake fluid cover
• fan
• and paint on hood and passenger door

 

more picture

 

Did this by any chance involve a rubber line?

 

Yes you can kind of see in one of the pictures the rubber fuel line that goes to the carb. broke or split. It was freezing cold the morning it happened, could that and old age be the cause? Too late now but I would like to know.


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I can't make anything out with the pictures cause they are blury. Is it a small rubber line or a larger one? A larger one is more than likely a fuel feed line. If fuel touched the manifolds you found your problem

 

This should be a sticky. As many times as I've told people on I can't even begin to guess how many forums NOT TO USE RUBBER LINE, because this will happen, it would be great to have someone else's misfortune to display as the reason why that's not a good idea.

Sorry it happened to you. I don't mean to make light of your predicament; but.... I'm actually thinking you might have been one of the people I've warned about that at one point or another.

The cause is, rubber line. Solution is, DON'T DO THAT (in retrospect). Didn't really have anything to do with cold, as such; next guy that comes around with this, it will be in July, and he'll want to know "could the heat have had something to do with it". Answer remains, not really; not any more, or less, than cold. It's because it's just ... rubber.

Yeah I know it's an Edelbrock carb, totally hostile to doing it right, and all that; still, it remains a question of risk vs cost. Unfortunately you just found out that the low cost up front leads to the potential for (risk of) a high cost later on.

Again, sorry to see that... I've watched cars burn to the ground for that, while their owners stood helplessly by on the freeway or whatever. Usually old Frod products, as those actually came from the factory with a little short section of rubber line right in the most critical spot, where it would spray the fuel right directly onto the distributor when it screws up. It's a sad thing to see happen regardless. I hate to see a car somebody cares about get ruined that way. I hope you can get it ironed back out.

 

Its deffinatly a fuel line, the one that goes to the side of the carb.

And sofa dont worry, I am fairly certain the Edelbrock is done and (likely) a Holley will replace it. I dont remember you telling me or ever hearing about this happening before, but I sure as hell wont be using rubber lines again.

After this I do hope it will get a sticky. There is ALOT of more stuff that I didnt get pictures of, that is ruined. I am still undecided if this car is being rebuilt, or going to donate the drivetrain to my next vehicle, either way its money and time wasted.

 

Its deffinatly a fuel line, the one that goes to the side of the carb.