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Nylon fuel lines (Ford 2.3)


DasFord

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Something that is pissing me off about my Merk. At 25, I decided to give the car a little refresh and love, the entire freakin engine block was covered in old dirty motor oil, it was time to replace the valve cover gasket, I have a new silicone one, it works great. While removing all of my intake manifold, I snapped off a connector for a high pressure line to my fuel rail.

 

It's a short line that runs from the fuel pressure regulator to the fuel rail, not a big deal, or so I thought. I went to Advance purchased a replacement Nylon line, the instructions say "let line sit in hot water for 10 minutes until pliable." I put the line in the hottest tap water I could find, no luck.

 

I then boiled that bitch for about 12 minutes put the line on, put the factory rubber around it and hose clamped it. That worked great, for about a day, then I went out for a little joy ride and could smell gas, stopped off and it was dripping, so I quickly went back home and pulled the line and regulator.

 

I thought i'd take a stab at it one more time. I boiled the lower portion of the line for 15 minutes on high heat, placed the line on, clamped the rubber hose as tight as I could get it without breaking something, I tried to turn the line by twisting with my fingers and it did not turn, checked with a flashlight to make sure there were no obstructions to the line, hook it up, dripping like a damn leaky faucet.

 

I'm no expert mechanic, but, I felt as if this was fairly straight forward.

 

Please help, I'm lost. :confused:

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