[MBZ] "cigar" hose

[andrew strasfogel]

Just make sure it isn't a Cuban import cigar hose, or Homeland Security will
lock you up there indefinitely in a place called Guantanamo.



On 4/29/06, Marshall Booth <mbooth+ at pitt.edu> wrote:
>
> Christopher McCann wrote:
> > What is the purpose of a "cigar" hose...I'm thinking of the one coming
> off the top of the fuel filter housing that sends fuel back to the tank.
> >
>
> The cigar shaped hose (before it hardens to stone with age) dampens the
> fuel pulses so they don't couple to the chassis and create more racket.
>
> Compare a NEW cigar shaped hose to a normal piece of hose and you WILL
> hear a difference.
>
> Marshall
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