Hi BXperts. .
I need to replace the fuel pipes on my K reg tgd. I've got a pair of pipes sorted but I would like any advice on fitting them please. What else might be required apart from th pipes etc. The local French car outfit would charge £50 + vat per hour for 2 hrs work and my budget will not stand that so i'll have a go myself. Any advice will be thankfully received. (I have a jack & axle stands)
Thanks for looking.
Mike
Replacing 1.9d fuel pipes
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Re: Replacing 1.9d fuel pipes
Lift up the back seat and remove the black plastic disc nearest the nearside of car. Unplug the rubber pipes from the fuel tank before you start.
Might pay to have some appropriate size jubilee clips ready and maybe a junior hacksaw. Every pair I fitted, the thinner return pipe had it's 90' bend in the wrong place, making it almost impossibe to push up into it's rubber pipe at the tank end and thus a bit short at the front end, so needed a bit cutting off.
If your car still has the fuel heater connected at the back of the engine, I'd take this opportunity to bypass it and fit a new rubber fuel pipe between you new metal pipe and the fuel filter.
Might pay to have some appropriate size jubilee clips ready and maybe a junior hacksaw. Every pair I fitted, the thinner return pipe had it's 90' bend in the wrong place, making it almost impossibe to push up into it's rubber pipe at the tank end and thus a bit short at the front end, so needed a bit cutting off.
If your car still has the fuel heater connected at the back of the engine, I'd take this opportunity to bypass it and fit a new rubber fuel pipe between you new metal pipe and the fuel filter.
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Re: Replacing 1.9d fuel pipes
Yes, that's a very good idea, re the fuel heater - pretty easy with a good torch on a diesel... really not easy on a turbo diesel without pulling the engine forward after taking it off the mounts..
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