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Originally Posted by 1993-VG30E-GXE
Actually, maybe you guys or anyone that did it, can tell me what I need to do on the ends. I thought the word barb meant that end of the pipe with the bulge in it. There's 3 fuel pipes in total. I beleive they are all 5/16".
Do I made 1 hump on each end of the pipes...and the end at the fuel tank, does it basically connect to a piece of fuel injector hose that go straight into the fuel pump? This is the photo in the FSM but haven't seen it in real life yet. I'll need 6 fuel injector hose clamps, 6 humps total at ends of each pipe (3) right?
If anyone has the measurements please post them.
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They should indeed all be 5/16" or 8mm (close enough to be interchangeable), IIRC every Nissan I've ever touched has those size fuel lines.
Well a barb is this (obviously ignore the threads on the right):
The name is pretty intuitive.
Fuel lines generally have a bead rolled into the end, such as this:
Which is what you're referring to.
Looking at FAST (with an image from Courtesy), it does look like there are two fuel hoses coupling the lines to the nipples on the pump assembly:
If you can't find anything to roll a bead in the pipe with, you could always rent/buy a flaring kit for brake lines; when you flare the end, it produces a pretty well defined 'hump' that would serve an identical purpose. Not sure how the ID is affected by that at the flaring site, though.
If you've got some free time and like to construct things, you could try something like this:
http://forums.turbobricks.com/showthread.php?t=58790
I know there's an extremely simple answer that I'm overlooking, I tend to do that sometimes.