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Old Oct 23, 2016 | 01:12 PM
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what is this

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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Old Oct 23, 2016 | 01:19 PM
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Re: what is this

Thats not a stock part.
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Old Oct 23, 2016 | 03:10 PM
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Re: what is this

Yup, looks like the old "cow magnet" myth...
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Old Oct 23, 2016 | 04:49 PM
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Re: what is this

"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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Old Oct 23, 2016 | 05:48 PM
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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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Old Oct 25, 2016 | 11:03 AM
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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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Old Oct 25, 2016 | 11:34 AM
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Re: what is this

NO. If it did, the manufactures would be installing them at the factory.
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Old Oct 25, 2016 | 11:34 AM
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Re: what is this

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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Old Oct 26, 2016 | 04:52 PM
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Re: what is this

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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Old Nov 11, 2016 | 09:55 PM
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may just be bodged fule leak fix ! BIN IT!
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Old Nov 12, 2016 | 09:21 PM
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Re: what is this

Originally Posted by AlkyIROC
NO. If it did, the manufactures would be installing them at the factory.

Mythbusters tested these....busted.
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