Where do you get stock of this trimmer fuel line? If I'm gonna spend $15 and I just want tube then I'd prefer a roll of it than have to get a couple pieces and carburetor I don't need
I think I found some on Amazon. They sell in four different sizes though. But they do have the smallest and several feet of all for $10-15 so I think I'm good. Was hoping to find it locally though
Well the last Amazon replacement I got the grommet there with the three holes wasn't leak tight so I went through that whole kit with this leak.
Just grabbed another. I try to reuse parts when possible, particularly to learn what went wrong last time, so using this O'Reilly fuel line which is actually fatter than the oem tube requiring me to widen my current grommet with too wide of holes. I also did grab oem tube from this lawn equipment store we have, I just went to last to try to see what else was available, big difference in $/ft.
So no more leaking but... I'll start another thread...
But for me TruBlue is a con job as it failed in house testing. It harden and shrunk in 10% ethanol @ cycle mix after 30 days. They claim doesn't do either but it did here.
I just stick Tygon F-4040 line and the Echo rubber lines.
But for me TruBlue is a con job as it failed in house testing. It harden and shrunk in 10% ethanol @ cycle mix after 30 days. They claim doesn't do either but it did here.
I just stick Tygon F-4040 line and the Echo rubber lines.
Hmm, never had any trouble on my 2 cycle equipment or any comebacks with it.
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Hammermechanicman
There are sellers on ebay selling kockoff line and saying it is authentic Tygon. Real Tygon has white writing on it. None of the knockoff stuff holds up. I only use Tygon F4040, OEM Honda and Echo line
As Hammer & Star says
TYGON and only tygon that is branded with both the name TYGON and the product number
I get almost daily emails from vendors offering me "genuine plastic fuel lines in popular yellow colour "
A 500' roll of this is about the same as the wholesale price of a 20' roll of real Tygon from one of my local wholesalers .
And it gets more complicated as genuine petrol tube comes in more sizes than Tygon make. I think I have around 14 different sizes .
And most sizes come in 2 different wall thicknesses , thick tube for the suction line ( fuel tank to carb ) and thin walled tube for the return line to the tank.
The above is for tools that use grommets .
If it just has a hole in the case then you need heavy walled for both sides
On top of that a lot of he stuff out of China is metric where as most USA stuff uses imperial and some of the MTD stuff uses MTD specific tube in some silly 64th inch size that I can not get wholesale so I fit new carbs to them that take normal tube
I might consider buying some off a reel in an auto parts store, but off amazon or ebay, no way in the wide world and a hardwear or general store like Ace or Wally forget it .
These hand helds can and do burst into flames caused by leaking fuel lines , most commonly on chain saws
There are sellers on ebay selling kockoff line and saying it is authentic Tygon. Real Tygon has white writing on it. None of the knockoff stuff holds up. I only use Tygon F4040, OEM Honda and Echo line
Tygon is a trade name of Saint-Gobain Performance Plastic's and they make a myriad of specialist tubing for industrial & scientific equipment in specific grades of hardness and chemical resistance .
Tygon is the petrol & ethanol resistant tube so it will tale avgas through to 100% ethanol
And of course it is low permability , does not allow single molecules to diffuse through the sides as most tubing will do.
Again EPA regulations adding cost & complexity for zero real benefit to any one other than the tubing makers .
