Fuel Lines

As I've just removed the boot floor to fit a new one I'll need to drop.the fuel tank.
I've searched around the site about dropping the fuel tank to mka ethe Welding safe etc but what have people used for connecting the fuel pipes again?
Also is.it worth redoing the fuel lines while the boots out and what's the best thing to use.
Quick search Smoggie doing it with Copper but didn't know if any high pressure hose or silicone had.come on the market in recent years?

We luddites use copper, but modern cars have had all plastic lines for donkeys years now without trouble.

The tank is connected by plastic hoses sweated onto the steel ones, I just left 1" of the steel and used rubber to join to my new copper lines, so I could drop the tank.

At the tank the plastic line joins with those strange click together bayonet connectors that can be reused if you didn't break them.

I break pretty much every connector trying to get it apart though :blush:

I just unplugged the tank and dropped it out.

OllieNZ wrote: I just unplugged the tank and dropped it out.

I'm hoping I can do the same but like facade ill probs snap everything so trying to cover all avenue's! Suppose first step is to drop the tank see if I snap anything haha

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I already had the floor out, if you drop it it will swing to the right and keep the right end up there's a bit of flex in the pipes but if you pull it down level you'll stress the connections on top of the tank.

Cheers Ollie, yeah my Floors out too so fingers crossed!

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