Fuel Feed and Return Lines

StangLou

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Jul 9, 2003
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Ok guys, heres the deal... My fuel connectors at the fuel rail would not come undone when I was swapping upper and lower intakes. Had a buddy of mine come over and we decided to just unhook them from underneath the car. Well long story short, the car is back together, and I attempted to start it last night. No dice, so I waited till this am to have light. The car starts to act like it wants to turn over, but never quite does. Basically like its out of fuel, or the battery is really weak. Primed the pump, and again, no start. I crawl under to check the obvious lines, and low and behold gas is pouring out of one of those fuel fittings/lines. I disconnect it, and reattach it, and its seems that no more gas is coming out of it, but the hose covering the line still seeps out gas and literally drips when I cut the key over to turn on the fuel pump. Im hoping to have my g/f turn the key a few times this afternoon if I get home when theres enough light so I can see exaclty where its coming from. Worse case scenario is I need new feed and return lines. Where can I get these things from? The catch is they need to have the end to connect on to the fuel fitting.
Only other possibility I can think of is that those 2 O rings on the male end may be bad :shrug: Can I just get new ones from somewhere and swap those on and give it a shot, or do I need new lines altogether?
Thanks for any help in advance guys!!!

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If you've got just one small section that is leaking then cut that section out and replace the ends with AN fittings. You should be able to find what you need at just about any auto parts store.
 
The auto parts store will have the O rings, but you will have to ask for them. It will be helpful to measure the tube they fit on, keeping in mind that they sit a a groove or recess. You may be able to just tell them what you want if you avoid going to one of the chain stores like Autozone. Napa seems to be better for that sort of thing.
 
I had to replace my feed line also. I ended up getting a fitting from summit that connects to your fuel rail. Then I ran 3/8 braded line back to the filter and double clamped it on. Its nice to have the small fed line gone, but I wish I didn't have to do it at all. Anyway alltogether it cost me around 130.00$ No one I knew made new factory lines. GOOD LUCK!
 
Thanks for the help guys.

Thats an awesome site :nice:

Just to clear things up, I want to make sure we are all on the same page.

Here is one of my infamously bad paint drawings to try and show what Im talking about...

fuel_attempt2.jpg


Where the leak is, its a braided line with a rubber hose over it. None of the metal lines are leaking, its just that one little curved piece it seems. Its to messy here to go out and get pics or I would.
Once it clears up Im going to try and find some new O rings for it, slap those on, and see if that helps. I hope it will, I really want to get this thing up and running!!!