10 Best Boat Marine Fuel Lines (w/Hose Quick Connect) Review

Fuel Lines compatible with Ethanol blended fuels, Johnson/Evinrude, Mercury, Yamaha Brands engines and tanks.

TOP Fuel Lines Comparison Table

1. The Best Universal Marine Outboard Boat Motor Fuel Line Hose [Ogrmar]

Compatible with ethanol blended fuels; engineered low permeation material prevents fuel evaporation. Dual check valves allow priming in multiple orientations without restricting fuel flow. Premium quality rubber bulb with rubber line hose, stainless steel clamps.

2. The Best Universal Fuel Line Assembly Kit with Tank Fitting (Johnson/Evinrude, Mercury, Yamaha) [Attwood]

3. The Best Universal Marine Nylon Braided Fuel Line Outboard with Primer Bulb [Five Oceans]

4. The Best Fuel Line Assembly - 9 Feet Long with Primer Bulb [Quicksilver]

5. The Best Fuel Line Assembly - 8 Feet Long with Primer Bulb [Quicksilver]

6. The Best Fuel Line Kit [Attwood]

7. The Best Fuel Line Hose [PRO-1]

8. The Best Braided Fuel Line Hose for 3/8" Tube Size [theBlueStone]

9. The Best Black Fuel Line Hose [HBD Thermoid]

10. The Best Fuel Hose [Continental]

How to Change your Fuel Line Assembly

Marine manufacturers make a variety of fuel products. If you just need to change a connector you can go down and get in a connector that's specifically for your motor Yamaha, Johnson Evinrude, Mercury, whichever you want. It easily attaches, you cut your old line if your old line is still good, plug it into the connector, get a couple of stainless steel worm gear clamps, put it on - no leaks, you're ready to go. As I mentioned before when I was priming my bulb to get my engine started my hand turned black from it, I want to change my primer bulb as long as my fuel lines and connectors are all good, I can always cut this primer bulb out, go down and get a Shoreline Marine products primer bulb, doesn't matter what size hose that I have the bulb fits either a 5/16 or a 3/8. All you have to do is if you have a 5/16, you leave your ends on, if you have a 3/8 you can cut the first length off of it and converse it straight over to a 3/8 bulb. But as I mentioned my hoses are starting to corrode, starting to dry right a little bit, I am getting my hands black and my in was actually leaking on tank. So I'm going to have to change out my whole fuel line assembly and probably change out the end on tank very simple. Marine manufacturers have everything we need – connectors, clamps, a fuel assembly for either Mercury Johnson and Evinrude or Yamaha, just depends on what motor I have is which one I get. I'm gonna have to change my fitting out, takes a 5/8 wrench, just twist it, pull the old fitting out. Take my new fitting, want to put teflon tape on it. You can either use regular teflon tape or you can use liquid teflon tape. Wrap it around, give it two or three turns, get it started thread, and tighten. It one thing you want to be very careful of when you're replacing this fitting, you're taking a brass fitting going into a plaque plastic connector. When you tighten it up you don't want to over tighten it because you'll actually crack the fitting on the top of your tank. So just good and snug, make sure you have no leaks in it, shake your tank around with the vent closed, it'll actually expand the gas and if anything is coming out, it'll leak, you've got your fitting changed. We're ready to connect our fuel line. Make sure you always notice on your fuel bulb, there's an arrow that's your fuel flow. You always want to have the arrow pointing towards your motor, so we'll take the end that's on the backside of the arrow, plug it into it good, tight seal, come over to your motor, plug it in and we're ready to start it. One thing I'd like to note about the fuel lines - you can't kink them unless you really fold them really hard in half, but as you're pulling them out or when they're in your boat and they're sliding back and forth on your boat they generally won't kink, they'll just roll right over themselves. Don't have worry about your motor starving for fuel, you just keep on going down to water. Also the primer bulbs and the fuel lines are all EPA rated, so you don't have any emissions going out into the air helps protect our services. Our old fuel line, we want to make sure we properly dispose of it because there's oil and gas still in the lines. Make sure you don't just throw it in your trash where it goes to the dump you want to take it out to the dump and put it into their hazardous material bins. Another little thing that marine manufacturers offer is an inline fuel filter, it's class so you can see if you have any water or debris in your filter, if you get water in your tank you'll be able to see it in your line as you're running your motor. A couple final things about your fuel system. With the new ethanol gas that we have a lot of the old fuel lines are being deteriorated on the inside. The outsides might look real good but the inside of the lines are starting to fall apart, clogging up your fuel system on your motors. You want to make sure that when you change your line out it is an EPA rated ethanol based fuel line. So that you'll know that it is good for the new fuels that we're using. On this boat as small it is as it is, we can use a what they call a b-1 fuel line which is for above deck installations, from if you're in a boat that has an enclosed fuel line fuel tank you can use this from your splash well to your motor, but inside the boat itself you need to use the approved fuel line which is a lot heavier with flame retardancy involved in it. Also on the big boats when you're when you're rigging it out you want to put a water separator filter on there, helps reduce your problems on your engines any water that gets in your fuel lines and fuel tanks because of the ethanol that's in there will be trapped in these things. Marine manufacturers build one has a glass bottom on the end of it, where you can actually drain it and clean the water out in case you get a little bit of water in there. You want to make sure you trap the water in a container so that it doesn't go overboard into the waters then dispose of it properly.

FAQ

Let's go over some frequently asked questions about fuel lines.