Has anybody ever seen this???

Darter6 said

Bill, Quality of gas,rubber, just about everything has gone down hill.Get this,, I got new "Gates" hose from the parts house thinking "Gates, Good"? Didn't last a year.I replaced it with a piece of 40 year old O.E. hose (that I took off in the first place) to get me home.Glad I thru it in the trunk.Now I just use Fuel Injection spec hose.Seems to hold up better.

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I had a bad experience with Gates hose a LONG LONG time ago, and I used to SELL Gates products.

My 70 RR body, in the last years I owned it, had a 340 swapped in. I had scored some braided line, and the ONLY rubber line in the fuel system was about 3" of "store" Gates hose between the fuel filter and the carb, at a slight bend, maybe 10-20* bend.

One day after work, I started the car, and though I smelled gas. I don't know why I did not shut off the engine, but it might not of mattered. Opened the hood to be greeted by a fire. It wasn't TOO serious, but it DID cook part of the underhood harness. So that week I had the harness laid out on a table, replacing each wire one at a time with some surplus teflon insulated, silver plated wire I had. Only RR in the world that had "all white" color codes under the hood.

THAT PIECE OF GATES HOSE WAS LESS THAN A YEAR OLD!!!