Re: Plastic fuel line repair or replace, need help!
[Re: mopars4ever]
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09/06/17 04:49 AM
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I bought a new line from the dodge dealer but that was a few years ago. Me too. Also the tool to release the fittings from AZ. At the time, cost for the line was reasonable ('98 Neon).
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Re: Plastic fuel line repair or replace, need help!
[Re: yellowscamp]
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09/06/17 10:06 AM
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therocks
oh wait.but hey.lets see.oh yeah.
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They do make some replacments that you dont replace the entire line.Comes with a brass sleeve that goes in the OE line and the replacment piece.Repaired lines at work and never had a problem.You just need to see if they make one for your app.Rocky
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Re: Plastic fuel line repair or replace, need help!
[Re: yellowscamp]
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09/15/17 12:14 PM
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therocks
oh wait.but hey.lets see.oh yeah.
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You dont need clamps.You heat the line and install the barbed fitting.We used boiling water at the shop.Once the line goes over it wont come out.Used it many time and never a problem.Rocky
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Re: Plastic fuel line repair or replace, need help!
[Re: yellowscamp]
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09/16/17 08:51 PM
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The Dorman line of repair kits are a sloppy mess, at least as far as 1994-1995 Rams are concerned.
The kit mentioned in my post above, 800-059, shows the correct right angle fuel pump connector ON THE PACKAGE DRAWING, but the actual part inside is not as pictured. The nylon fuel line in the kit is 3/8 but the 94-95 Ram uses a 5/16 nylon line. No matter how much you warm the original factory line, with boiling water or even hot olive at 300 degrees, the supplied steel barb ( maybe 3/8 in auto spec) will not slip inside the factory 5/16 nylon line.
Dorma's straight connector kit 800-058, has the correct fuel pump quick connector mechanism, both on the drawing and inside the package, but no helpful right angle turn and also the wrong 3/8 nylon line.
Dorman makes a 5/16 nylon line repair kit, 800-057, but the quick connector to the fuel pump is too small to fit the Ram's outlet. The steel barb on this kit will slide into the factory line.
A 3/8 barb to 5/16 barb adapter would fix this.
Dorman could have easily provided one in their kits for $1-$2 more.
Apparently the brass hose barb adapters to threaded fittings sold in hardware stores are made to different specs than those steel barbs for nylon fuel line.
I tried to make an adapter from two different size barb to male pipe fittings and a brass double female pipe coupling.
Ace Hardware 757001-0404 made of brass for water hose to pipe Is close to the diameter of the Dorman steel 5/16 barb for nylon fuel line.
757001-0504 made of brass for water hose to pipe Is close to the diameter of the Dorman steel 3/8 barb for fuel line.
The pipe coupling is 738103-04 LF RB Coupling 1/4
I do not know whether this make-do adapter will work yet.
The most maddening thing is now that I have the bad part that suddenly began leaking, the failure was not a manufacturing defect, It was not that the part was 22 years old, It was that a SQUIRREL gnawed a hole in it.
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Re: Plastic fuel line repair or replace, need help!
[Re: yellowscamp]
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09/17/17 04:32 PM
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therocks
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The barbs usually dont go all the way in.Once the barbs go in and the line tightens they dont come out.Rocky
Chrysler Firepower
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