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Old 09-20-2012, 04:47 PM
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Hey all I'm a new member to the forum and have spent a while searching on here as well as Google for my particular problem to no avail. I have a 71 K5 CST and as far as i can tell it has a Dealer installed option of 2 saddle tanks. My parents bought the truck from the original owner about 30 years back and he said that he "ordered it that way". Well my issue is the fuel hoses and plastic lines have finally deteriorated enough to need to be redone. Upon dropping the main tank to get to all the other hoses I discovered that there is some pretty complicated routing going on under there and that some of the saddle tank hoses were completely torn. There are a few that seem to go to nowhere and a couple that seem to loop back and such. Does anyone have any clue about how to route these hoses or have this particular setup themselves?
 
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Old 09-20-2012, 06:08 PM
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sometimes the lines that go no where might just be vent hoses. but this is probably going to be a tough question to answer. if possible just replace one line at a time as not to get confused
 
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Old 09-20-2012, 08:52 PM
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Yeah that's what I think I'm going to have to do. I was hoping I'd get lucky and someone else would have this or something similar ya know. Thats my luck though ha ha.
 
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