Fuel Fill Hose HELP!!!!

[jonesg]

I did all my hoses whilst I had the deck off, its still a beech of a job pulling it thru. Recommend you have 2 people, push and pull.

My mechanic suggested I could try cutting the gunnel open to facilitate , bah I showed him.

[Tiny]

Be sure to use the old hose to pull the new hose if you can. It makes it a lot easier.

We were lucky enough to have a brass 1 1/2 splice that joined the two hoses nicely. They do have wire in them, you might be able to drill holes in each and zip tie or use wire to join them.

[BigLew]

Tiny makes a great point. Hopefully, you have not remove the old hose yet.

What you need to do is create a guide wire! Get the stiffest wire or other item you can find that will pass down through the old hose to the end. Then, take the new piece of hose, put it over the guide wire and push it into place while it pushes the old those out. The guide wire will need to be at least twice as long as the original fuel hose so that you can keep tension on the guide wire while pushing the old hose out.

When everything's in place, i.e. the fuel fill pipe is attached to the hose, then you can remove the guide wire. A suggestion for the guide wire might be 2-4 AWG wire(battery)cable or something else equally heavy and stiff.

Just my 2¢ worth. Good luck.

[Kahuna]

ODT,
I had the SAME problem on my 2008 3.0 seafari repower. Tank was new, motor new, fuel line new, filter new, only original thing left in the boat was the fuel fill, fill hose and vent hose. why those were never replaced when the original owner did the tank, I will never know. With the tank out, I pulled the old fuel fill and house out. I used a coat hanger to fish a piece of 130lb dacron from the fuel tank space to the gunnel. tied 3 rolling hitches around the hose with teh dacron and pulled. I thought it was going to be alot harder than it was. I had sufficient space under the gunnel to get both hose clamps on the fuel fill.