so here's why i'm a jacka$$.....

[charlie_the_tuna]

i'm replacing the fuel line from the tank to the filter/water separator. like a jacka$$, i pulled the old line out without attaching the new line to it. why? because i'm a cheap bastard and it didn't want to buy 9 feet of line if i only needed 8. so i yanked it out to measure thinking it'll be a breeze to push a snake through and just pull the new line into place.
so apparently, what they did at the wellcraft factory was to install a rat maze under the deck in which to run the line. AWESOME!!!
so my stiff fiberglass rod snake wouldn't do the job so i figure maybe my fish tape will do the job. where the hell is my fish tape?? i think i must've walked by it 26,000 times over the last quarter century. now, the dam thing is nowhere to be found. seeing as how we live in absolute squaler, in a house with far too many rooms.... i'm confident i'll never see this particular tool again.
so a good friend of mine is a plumber and he has an assortment of endoscopes and has aggreed to lend me the 3.3 footer. i'll bend and shove with a length of 100 pound mono taped off to the camera and hopefully, i can get it through to run the new line, which i saved $4.29 on by the way.
worst case?? i discovered that i could easily find the area underneath the splash well. if i cant run the line under the deck... i'm just gonna have to drill through the splash well and mount the filter/separator to the wall of the splash well, mount the bulb in the well and off we go. i'm gonna get this all done and test her out before i decide to replace the line from the filter to the motor, being it'll be a bich to work on that while laying all over the motor. we're still in the water and absolutely nothing is easy to access. of course, we always have plan B which is to go down there with a handful of 12ga slugs and sink her at the dock.

[charlie_the_tuna]

also, i'm gonna order up the under cowl fuel filter just in case. DAM!! i'd love to save that $10 bucks!!

[phatdaddy]

I still don t know how u need 8 ft of fuel line if ur fuel tank is just forward of the splash well. The fuel pickup should be on the aft end of the tank,no more than a couple of feet from the engine

Take a pic and email it to me

[charlie_the_tuna]

We measured 6 feet from tank to bulb and I added a foot from bulb to filter. It was tight and I had to get into a yoga position to pump the bulb. I took that into account when measuring.

[Blue_Runner]

Charlie, you know you could probably have a good career in stand-up comedy. LMAO at your post!

The fuel line going under the V21 deck was attached with a clip underneath, so I couldn't get it out. It is still there, just not connected to anything. I would have loved to have gotten it out because I wanted to split it open and check out the ethanol damage.

But in my case it wasn't too bad to get the new fuel from tank to the back.

Good luck!!

[phatdaddy]

Well Charlie, I stand corrected I went and looked at mine, about 4 ft from tank pickup to Racor on the starboard side under the storage bin on the transom, then about 3 ft from Racor through rigging tube to engine.

Good luck