For fuel lines, a proper fuel line clamp is best. It won't cut into the rubber hose. Much better than worm gear type (which I do admit to using myself on outboard fuel hose repairs!) You do need to get right size. The spring type can work, but probably better to use a clamp that you can tighten. I have used zip ties on the line from fuel pump to carb, but you do need to get a type that will work. Motor dealer or shop should have them. THis link explains https://www.fuelhoseziptie.com/

 

This isn't under pressure, just under suction, it's the connection to the barbed fitting that runs from the outboard gas tank fuel line.

I dig the one you've shown, didn't know that was a possibility, I was just seeing these crimp-down ear and pinch clamps, which then need to be removed sacrificially with side-cutters, which seemed like a proper annoyance.

I'll talk to the yard and find out what they've got around.

Thanks again for the info!

 

Sounds like in addition to "real" clamps, you need fuel line connectors. That would allow easy connection and disconnection of the tank and engine. Most are engine brand specific, but since you don't seem to have any, just get a pair that mate.

 

I understood slomo to mean that he was looking for clamps for the hose to connector barb. Good idea to replace zipties or crimps that some hose assemblies have.

Slomo - those clamps I showed earlier are available at any car parts store. They are used on fuel injection hoses. Just take a piece of hose in and get the right size. You could use regular gear clamps but they tend to pinch the hose and then you get a leak. Been there done that!

 

I use Oetiker Clamps but the investment, crimp tool and clamps, is probably too much for just a few clamps. If using screw clamps AWAB and ABA makes some of the best.

 

Yep, the photo is what it is...

The issue was that the clamp had to come off because the hose ran from the outboard, THROUGH the cockpit wall, into the lazarette where the tank lives, but the hole itself was just a shade too small to let the connector through, though the hose fits (of course.)

So, to get the tank out to empty the nasty old gas, and to bring it off the boat to go fill up I had to get the motor connector off.

I don't really want to bore away any fiberglass if I don't need to, so I thought if I can pull the connector off (sorry for mis-speaking with barb vs connector earlier) and reattach it with a clamp that's reusable, it would be ideal.

She'll be sitting where there are no services, on the Hudson, so it's this or bring a gas can on board, which would also work, but is just a bit riskier in terms of storing the fuel.

 

Just get a small hose clamp at the auto parts store, the kind that is used for small heater hoses. I have the same hole on my boat. You'd be surprised how many times I've had that clamp off. The auto parts store clamp is going on 5 years without any sign of rust.

 

On most outboards, the connector is removable at the tank end. So you just unplug it and remove the tank. On others, the tank could just have a barb and have the hose clamped on there. In that case, opening up the hole a touch would avoid having to unclamp the motor end connector.

Even although I owned a Grampian in early 70's, what I have forgotten, is how the tank storage area is arranged so that fumes from the tank don't end up in the boat's bilge.