Soft fuel lines. Options?

[Stomis]

Since the s10 is on a budget and also going to be tbi aka 18 psi on the high end Im planning on plumbing it all in soft line. I dont want pushlok, braided line, any of that. I just want to run some plain jane soft lines from back to front. I do how ever want to run something a little stouter and abrasion resistant than typical fuel hose. Whats my options? Everything Im looking at winds up being a discussion on what the best hose to use for pushlok is.

 

[Bent77]

3/8” brake line. Soft line at each end as little as possible

 

[tRustyK5]

The most important thing is fuel line that can withstand ethanol without turning to mush inside. Rubber and ethanol is a bad recipe...

 

[diesel4me]

3/8" Copper tubing is what I've used in the past--wont rust,easy to bend and flare,and use only short hunks of hose to join it to the tank and whatever it connects to under the hood..the rubber will isolate vibrations that might work harden the copper and make it liable to crack..you can get a 10 foot roll at Lowes or Home Depot for about 15 bucks..
Ethanol can and will either turn rubber to gum or harden it to the point it'll crack, just about any rubber hose eventually,including ones labeled "ethanol resistant"..

 

[Truckman4life]

My old Napa in Moab had some good quality low psi like 300 and under rubber hose with a braided cloth outside on it that I used for the boost sensor line on 6.0L powerstrokes. It seemed to work good with hose clamps but was better than plain old rubber fuel/oil hose. Not sure how spendy it was though.

 

[jekquistk5]

I used aluminum 5/16" then gates fuel injection hose in short sections.

 

[Stomis]

I guess hardline down the frame and short standard fuel injection hose it is. Mcmaster has some nice weld on duel line isolators I saw on pirate.

 

[Mastiff]

Slightly off topic, but this reminds me of the blue colored push-lok hose I bought from Summit that I thought was the good stuff, then the description mysteriously stopped saying it was for fuel. Lots of threads asking/complaining about the situation. I still have it because it'd be a medium pain to replace on top of the tank. Hasn't had a problem yet, but it's on my mind. The standard fuel hose I used on my Scout got eaten by ethanol within a year.