Fuel line

When looking at the fuel line, we had to decide where the line should go - over or under the diff....

Going over meant a very sharp uphill straight from the tank. Although I am sure the pump would have pulled the fuel through ok, we thought it was much neater to have a straight run going under the diff.

This meant we had to come up with some way of protecting the line if the rear end ever got grounded. 

We are using 10mm micro bore pipe (sources from Wickes!) and managed to find some steel tube that was the right diameter for it to fit through. However, we didn't want the copper pipe rubbing on the steel pipe, so the steel pipe is actually large enough to take the copper pipe with a rubber pipe covering it. You can see this in the 3rd picture below as it exits the pipe. 

This was the initial pipe with a tab welded on to bolt it to the underside of the diff

Here you can see it bolted in place to the diff bracket

And here it is exiting the pipe and then clipped to the chassis. Again, we tried to clip at roughly 200mm intervals as with the clutch and brake lines. You can just about see that the tube is also now painted black to match the rest of the chassis

It is quite a short run of copper, as it then plumbs straight in to the filter which goes immediately in to the pump

All in all very happy with this approach as I am extremely confident the fuel line will be protected from underneath.