Is your boat's fuel line leaking and in need of replacement? Are you unsatisfied with your outboard engine's cheap, inferior factory installed fuel line? Have you ever wanted to modify and lengthen your fuel line to run under your dinghy's floorboard and through its bilge and into the enclosed fuel compartment to reduce dangerous, unsightly and annoying clutter?
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The video demonstrates the process of replacing a cheap, factory-installed fuel line in a dinghy with a heavy-duty alternative. The goal is to create a safer, more robust system that runs underneath the boat to clear deck space and improve durability.
These are the projects that you love. You just got to just get through it.
And of course it's not going to be easy.
Maybe I should have put some Vaseline or something on this.
Once again, saved by the heat gun.
You ever have a project that every single time you walk past it,
it just chuckles at you and laughs at you and starts mocking you. I'm like,
you can't conquer me.
Well, I've got just that kind of job right now and I'm going to have the last
laugh by the end of the day after I get done with this. Okay.
So what we're doing this morning is we are putting in a new fuel line
into our dinghy.
So right now we have a short fuel line that came with the
actual boat. Take this new line that's a lot thicker and heavier
duty. And we want to snake it all the way up underneath the boat.
And you see where it is coming out the other side.
We want to attach the valve
connector that goes to that right there.
And then this will be hidden underneath this cover. So it's nice and clean.
It's safer. It gets all the fuel cans out of the boat
and give you more storage. And it's just all around a whole lot better.
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Thanks a lot. So let's get back into this.
Found out that this is professionally installed at the
factory and you can't take them off.
So you got to force them off and you can't reuse them. So old joy.
So what we need to do is take this off,
this off. This has been taken off and replaced with a hose clamp.
That's really what we need on all the items.
And then we need to take this off and it's a real pain.
We're going to just rebuild the fuel line with heavier
duty. Like look how wimpy this is compared
to this hose. The factory just has like, really,
this came with the boat and it just, it's cheap and it's,
you know, it's just not very well done.
You can see the threading and the reinforcements in this.
This has none of that. So this is going to last a lot longer.
We're going to replace all of these clamps right here with hose
clamps so that you can actually modify this down the road or
replace them, which is really how this should have been done.
I'm really disappointed in this type of thing.
It just makes everything so much harder.
Hey, 15 minutes later and we've got a busted hose,
which I'm going to replace. And this thing still won't come off.
It's really,
really irritating that it doesn't allow for any type of modification.
So these are the projects that you love. You know,
you just got to just get through it. I got to get these things. Okay.
Finally,
we got this thing off and I don't think I destroyed it in the process.
And so this is going to be what fits into the outboard.
Now we're going to do is fit this on.
And of course it's not going to be easy.
Oh man.
Nothing's easy.
I don't want to hurt this thing in the process.
Maybe I should have put some Vaseline or something on this.
I want to try to get this all the way flush with this piece right here.
Oh, we're getting there.
But unfortunately I can't use a hammer because that would mess up this whole
delicate bit right here. So maybe we try to force it in.
Oh yeah. There we go. We got it how we need it.
Yes. Loosen it up.
And I'm going to stick that right there and attach that super tight.
So it's not coming off.
And really this is the way that they should have done it in the factory,
but it costs more and takes longer. I'm sure.
So that's what I needed. Just the clamps.
Beautiful.
Two more things that need to take this one off right here.
And I need to take this one off so we can get the hose on it.
Learning a little bit this time. Hopefully it won't take us long.
Look, my own tool company.
Darn.
So take a look at the two and just see the difference in the two.
Nissan, Marine and Tohatsu.
I'm a little disappointed in how just ridiculously cheap this stuff that comes
with the outboards is.
So rebuilding it's going to make it a whole lot more robust.
Here we are back in the dinghy,
but I'm going to take this and hook this in right there.
And it's really hard to do while I'm holding the camera.
Okay. So that's in now.
And then we're going to install the bulb right here.
And then from the bulb, we're going to attach the long line.
First thing we need to do is put this at the end of that,
which is going to go at the end of the line.
We're going to string the line underneath the boat and it's going to come out
here.
So getting that hose valve into the 516 hose because it's so heavy duty,
it's just almost impossible. So I'm going to use a heat gun.
Once again, saved by the heat gun.
We'll take this and I'm going to clamp the line underneath the hose clamp.
Check that out.
The hose clamp is got this line and a vice so it's not coming out.
Plus I'm tying it right there and we're just going to run it up underneath
here. Hopefully that's not too big to run through.
Here's Eileen.
She's got the line all the way pulled through there.
So it's underneath the boat. Then at the other end,
we're going to attach this bulb, which is going to attach to that.
Now it's time for us to fit the bowl over here,
but there also needs to be enough room for this to go back and forth.
And then we're going to attach it to our hose.
That's underneath the floor that we put up there.
And I've marked off where we're going to attach that right there.
So I just need to cut that. And then we need to hose clamp.
Now you need to make sure this arrow is pointing.
That's the flow of fuel is pointing toward the outboard motor.
And then now we got that on there. We just need to attach this hose clamp.
And then we need to attach this to this.
All right,
I've got that attached and it's running all the way up underneath.
And now it's time to prime the bulb and let's see if we can
get this engine started.
It took a lot of pumping to get that fuel line full.
I am so happy to see this motor
working with the new fuel line tucked away over there.
Finally, mission accomplished.
So look at how pretty that is with the tank underneath the latch and the fuel
line up underneath.
