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Well its been windy as hell here tonight, lights went out 20 minutes ago. Just over 1200 people in the state without power... all in my town. 802 fired over like a champ..... return lines leaking right at the end of the rigid line . My machine only has 60 or so original hours on it (and it was NOS, never issued... so it sat for 10+ years without ever having had fuel in it)... and its got a visible drip.

Hopefully it comes back on soon so I don't have to spill too much fuel needlessly. Let that taste of procrastination change the flavor of my 1AM cheerios...

Return lines and a new fuel gauge in the AM. Unless I blow away!

I've thought of making those lines out of steel with just a short piece of rubber hose on the end up top. Mine leached through the entire chunk from the top to the tank. We had crazy wind here last week had 35k people with no power. Some for 2 days.

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I've found the Gates replacement line to be more than sufficient in all units I've sold. I just finished doing all lines on an 802 headed to a chap in Maine, might as well do mine with the same materials while I still have it all out.

I've given up on using the OEM hose on the return side of things. Units that I went through about 5 years ago have started leaking. I'm using the thicker gates fuel line now. Its not as easy to install but I hope it lasts a few years longer.

WWRD99 said:

I've thought of making those lines out of steel with just a short piece of rubber hose on the end up top. Mine leached through the entire chunk from the top to the tank.

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I had a similar thought and ended up trying that idea on an 803 for my folks a few years back.

I fabbed up a solid line and routed it from the return fitting on the tank, generally followed the fresh fuel line below the left door and up towards the primary fuel filter, then stopped just below the air filter. I made it in 2 pieces with a splice below the primary fuel pump. Seems like it took about 5 ft of tubing.

I plan to do that on my other machines if/when I have a reason to remove the panel to expose the tank or aux fuel pump.