Fuel system, gasoline: delivery: hoses, lines/piping, and fittings (Zemco)
Vehicle equipment recall 79E-007. NHTSA received ZEMCO, INC.’s report on Apr 9, 1979.
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The short answer
NHTSA received ZEMCO, INC.’s report on Apr 9, 1979. Copied from NHTSA on Oct 20, 2026.
Every line below is in NHTSA’s own words, with its source beside it.
What’s wrong with it?
The notice gives no hazard in a field of its own.
A SIX INCH PIECE OF FUEL HOSE COULD DETERIORATE THROUGH CONTACT WITH GASOLINE, IF IMPROPERLY INSTALLED.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- NHTSA’s part: Fuel system, gasoline: delivery: hoses, lines/piping, and fittings.
What should you do?
IMPROVED FUEL HOSES AND CLAMPS, WITH INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS, WILL BE SENT TO OWNERS FREE OF CHARGE.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- How to reach the firm: VEHICLE CATEGORY: PASSENGER VEHICLES.SYSTEM: FUEL; SIX-INCH FUEL HOSES, COMPUCRUISE, MODEL NOS. 41 & 44.CONSEQUENCES OF DEFECT: LEAKING FUEL COULD LEAD TO AN ENGINE COMPARTMENT FIRE,VEHICLE DAMAGE, AND SERIOUS INJURIES TO VEHICLE OCCUPANTS.
Which ones are recalled?
NHTSA counts 4,000 items potentially involved, across everything this recall names.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- Zemco ZemcoNHTSA gives no dates made
Who is recalling it?
- Made by ZEMCO, INC..
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
What the record doesn’t say
- NHTSA’s recall file doesn’t say whether anyone was hurt.
- Which ones, by part or lot: the recall’s report on NHTSA’s site gives them where the maker did; this file gives part numbers only where its maker listed them.
- How many have been returned or fixed isn’t in the notice.
Hearth Record wrote these lines.
Sources
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Recalls flat file before 2010 (FLAT_RCL_PRE_2010).
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Vehicle, car seat, tire and vehicle equipment recalls, owner complaints and crash ratings are from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Copied on Oct 20, 2026.