fuel pipe

[cerdad]

Having read of a few fires on here some fuel related, how easy is it to replace the fuel pipe, is it flexible tubing ty rapped to the chassis? or flexy to solid, where mine joins the fuel rail(4.5)i cannot stop it weeping ,ive put new o ring behind the relief valve and a new jubilee clip and got the pipe all the way up the spigot so it seems a new pipe is in order,i have access to a ramp by the way.

[350Matt]

If you've got a ramp then its much easier

But you'll need to remove the belly plate, exhaust system and the prop heat shield at the very least, possibly the prop and box as well.

Still at least the parts are cheap, if it was me I'd replace either with braided lines or solid fuel pipe with a small bits of easily replaced rubber hose either end.

Matt

[optimax sniffer]

The pipe in the engine bay is fairly easy to do. When I did mine I also covered the pipes in fire retardant sleeving, it the hope that it will stop the pipe getting cooked by the engine...

[cerdad]

optimax how did you just do the engine bay?

[mikesr]

What year is your car?
I read somewhere that they changed the fuel lines to hard pipe and routed it differently down the car.
On mine the two pipes emerge through the bulkhead under the wiper motor. A hose with threaded connector goes from there to the fuel rail.
I changed the engine bay hoses for stainless braided earlier this year.

[350Matt]

Interesting, my old 98 4.2 had the rubber pipes running down the tunnel, what year & model is yours?

Matt

[mikesr]

Late 98

I think most of the early mods are on it as standard.
Just the upright recall sticker on the chassis plate

[cerdad]

mine is a 4.5 1998 ,i take it this connector is out of sight as i cant see it.

[mikesr]

The connectors are under the expansion tank/wiper motor.

I took the expansion tank out to get to them.

You would need to take the inner bonnet panel off and maybe the N/S airbox to see them

[optimax sniffer]

Mine has the connections under the expansion tank