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Where does SAE1645 NOT apply? Large diameter fuel rail lines?

Thread starter johnwalters
Start date Jan 11, 2007

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Jan 11, 2007

johnwalters

Mechanical

In looking at all the related SAE specs for fuel rails, it seems pretty absolute that everything that touches flowing gasoline (filter, lines, fuel rails) must be conductive for ESD purposes, yet there are many applications that I know do not use conductive plastic fuel rails. Can anyone tell me how this is possible? Are there guidelines that the Big 3 have that give some guidance to when flow velocities are low enough (hence little static build up) to make it not necessary to have conductive materials ?

Thanks,

John