Help getting off fuel rails and/or injectors! Its holding me up!

[Stopsign32v]

Well I need to take off the lower intake to seal an oil leak. I've been trying to get these stupid fuel rails off so I can pull the lower intake completely off the car and clean it real good. However I cannot seem to get either the 2 lines loose going to the rails, the rails off of the injectors, OR the damn injectors out of the intake!

What am I doing wrong here?! I went to Advance and got the stupid tool you have to use for the lines to disconnect them but the tool seemed to be too small. (even though the tool said it was used for I think 85 up Fords.)

So then I decided I'll just take the rails off the injectors and sit it aside while still attached to the lines. I pulled up on them thinking they would just snap free of the injectors like my 4.6 does. I pulled and pulled up and they would not come loose! x 2

Finally I figured I'd just take the damn injectors out of the intake and put the whole fuel system to the side while I take the intake off. They would not budge out of the intake. (maybe because the rails were still on)

So someone please give me a idiot proof way to get this damn fuel system off my intake!

 

[kpack5982]

alright, if you have the fuel line disconnection tools, get the one that fits the

tightest around side that is raised up slightly bigger than the rest of the line. Put

the connecting tool in there and you can kinda feel a little resistance, like there is

a spring in there. make sure you apply good pressure to the disconnecting tool,

while you pull on both sides of the line. May be kinda hard but it will pull apart.

Now the injectors and the fuel rail. The rail is connected to the intake with 2 small

bolts on either side, get a flashlight or light it good and you should see them.

Once you get those off, you just yank on the fuel rail and it will come off.

Sometimes the injectors come with it, sometimes they dont, but they simply pull

out too, some more difficult than others.

Let me know if you have any more questions.

Oh and the fuel line tools should be like 5 or 6 separate things attached to a

holder, i'll find a picture.... but the different lines require two different sizes.

 

[kpack5982]

you can get a tool like on this page:

http://www.mytoolstore.com/kd/kdengi04.html

or

http://www.autobarn.net/lis37000.html

 

[Stopsign32v]

Thanks kpack I just followed what you said and had them off in 5 minutes!