get the proper tygon hose and you will not have a leak. It's the
transparent yellow looking hose available at the small engine shops.

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"k-man" wrote in message
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Hi. I hope this is the right group to post this question. I have a
weed whacker/trimmer and the fuel line goes from the carb into the
fuel tank via a hole in the fuel tank (instead of there being a
connector on the fuel tank). Original fuel line was OK in that it was
thick and filled the hole pretty well. I had a replace the fuel line
and while the new line appeared to be the same outer diameter of the
original fuel line, fuel is managing to leak out of the tank from the
hole through which the fuel line enters. I guess I could try to find
thicker fuel line; but the stuff I just installed was difficult enough
to get through the hole. My question is does anyone know of a good
way to seal the apparent gap (not easily visible other than of course
the fuel leaking out) between the fuel line and the tank? I tried
silicone; but that does not appear to be fuel/oil-resistant (trimmer
is 2-cycle).

Thanks.
Kevin