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Yeah, that's a fuel line .
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Posted by RayF (more from RayF) on Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:13:44 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: fuel line - pressure thingy - what is this? please help, pone, Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:25:59
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That looks as if it's the pressure side of the fuel line, leads from fuel pump to the fuel filter (the banjo fitting end bolts up to the filter).

Yours appears to be broken at the end that enters the pump, which would be also a one-way valve meant to hold the fuel pressure up after shutoff, for the next start.

You can buy just that end, and re-insert it into the original line, but you may only cut off about 1/2" of line or it's too short to reach. Looks as if yours is messed up where it enters the line as well as the fitting being broken.

My approach would be to visit a nearby junkyard with C900s and get the intact piece of line with both ends good on it. You've gotta be quick at some of our local junkyards, these often get cut or busted off by guys who pull the fuel pump to drain the gas out of the cars.

Local indys often have a small fleet of parts cars and might be able to supply this line.

The end that enters the fuel pump has two o-rings on it, and is simply pushed down in, then held once it's in by a plastic catch that pops out over it. Lube the o-rings with vaseline.

If pulling one of these, slow gentle straight up pressure, while twisting back and forth, is the way. Maybe by locking a pair of vise grips gently onto the end, straight above the nozzle that enters the pump, as a handle. The plastic catch can be pried back, and let go of once fitting is out a little bit.

Forcing the barbed fittings into that nylon fuel line is an art; this site has photos and descriptions of homemade tools to hold the line while gently squeezing the fitting in, made of blocks of oak and long bolts and wing nuts.

You CAN buy splice unions for the tubing, and join an end off one car to the line of another, but it takes TWO of the above squeezing-fitting-into tubing jobs, and there isn't as easy a tool for that.

Or for s;licing you can buy high pressure fuel injector hose that will slip over the nylon tubing, and people have written on here about success simply clamping it onto the nylon. There are better-grade full circle hose clamps for such uses. High pressure fuel injector hose isn't cheap.

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