So decided I’d finally overhaul the engine cover and plenum and fit my new chrome inlet runners seeing as the weather was good. When taking off the fuel rails the grey plastic elbow that connects to them sheared. The other bit is still in the rubber hose. What are my options? Are the plastic fittings available separately? Need to get sorted pretty quick as I’m taking the car to a wedding in France in just over two weeks - probably shouldn’t have tackled this until afterwards! Thanks.
I dont trust those plastic dorman connectors, they seem to go brittle with age and the heat. I replaced the inner nylon outer rubber pipe and connectors with a SAE J30 R9 spec fuel hose the correct size for the rail and also proper fuel hose clips.
That looks pretty tidy. Have to agree it did look like it'd gone brittle which does concern me. Might look into replacement hoses and connectors in the near future. Can I ask where you purchased those bits?
There was a post on here a while ago where they’d replaced all the fuel lines with braided ones and some shiny fittings. Looked great but I can’t find it now. Oh well, project for the future.
That might be George in Melbourne, he replaced his lines with braided AN hoses, looks very pretty! Although he needed to have the AN fittings welded to the fuel rail.
I also had this happen to me, I just cut a short length of EFI hose and attached with hose clamps. Although I'm now looking at trying to go back to nylon hose to match the original.
@sillyspeed159 I would use hose clamps, the heat of the engine will make the hoses softer over time and more likely to just pop off.
Interesting subject. I've just replaced the fuel hose from the firewall to the fuel rail on my v6 because I put a kink in it replacing the heater matrix. Not that straight forward: the new fuel hose has a max bend radius of 90 degrees so you can't follow the same route as the original line - the hose on mine delaminated! And it's pretty hot in there so I ended up insulating the hose too. Also need to get a barbed connection for the CF3 fuel-rail connection. Safety first and all that.
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