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I bought a role of Gates' hose via Amazon.com and just paid the carriage+vat+duty, I wanted a decent quantity of known good stuff.
A lot of the "R9" being sold is trash - I tried a couple of batches and neither lasted more than a couple of months (hence my willingness to spend some money and stop messing about)
Do you need 5/16 or 1/4" or a mixture of the 2?
Cheers, Sam
A Sprint runs all 5/16" hose, except for the 2 x 3" long hoses that enter the float bowls which are 1/4" bore.
If you bought a roll Sam, I'll take a couple of metres of 5/16" off your hands for whatever the going rate is. I have had some (obviously counterfeit) duff stuff as well! Fitchetts are still living in the past on this, only selling R6, as do my local factors. I've told both (politely) they are behind the times, but no obvious results so far! Since I dropped out of the TSSC (3 lots of club subs TDC, CT and TSSC, was a bridge too far) that source is also denied me now.
Harder to get still and frequently overlooked, is the 1/2" bore tank breather hose. This doesn't seem to be a problem on standard cars as it rarely sees petrol and most cars I see still have the original hose. But my cars use the breather as part of the EFI fuel return system and original hose often lasts only days in that application. I'm using some hard won 12mm R6 ATM and just replacing it every year.
Steve