Found a pool of gas under the '89 RRC yesterday, one of the rigid fuel lines has ruptured. Anyone have any advice on replacement? Looks like it'll be a bear to get the old ones out and the new ones in.

thx.

Found a pool of gas under the '89 RRC yesterday, one of the rigid fuel lines has ruptured. Anyone have any advice on replacement? Looks like it'll be a bear to get the old ones out and the new ones in.

thx.

It's really not bad. If you have a bender and flare tool it takes less than an hour. Matt just unfastened them from the frame on the pass side and pulled them out from the front of the rig. He then layed them out on the floor and made approximate copies from new line and fed them back through...I'm oversimplifying but like I said, it was about an hour. Granted Matt has all teh tools and wherewithall, but if you're patient I'd go for it.

Due to no time and no working cars, I ordered the parts (which were nowhere near as expensive as I'd anticipated). So pulling them out from the front is the way to go?

Due to no time and no working cars, I ordered the parts (which were nowhere near as expensive as I'd anticipated). So pulling them out from the front is the way to go?

It may be year dependant, but matt's '89 just came right out once unfastened.

I did mine with relative ease as well. Mine came out in pieces but I fed the new one in from the front. Very easy job.

Jeff

get one of the small copper tube pipe cutters (a hand one you turn around and around) . cut off the old pipe.

attach rubber hose to fit with two clamps on each end.

Considered that, though I realized the entirety of the pips looks like a Rustoleum "before" picture, and I think that if it's devolped a leak at one point, the rest can't be far behind. Called RN to order the parts, they called back to ask if it was okay to take the pipes (6' long or so) and wrap them in circles to mail them . . . I didn't think that'd do much for the integrity of them. Wound up ordering them from the dealer, who wanted the same price as RN and less than AB. Go figure . . . Granted, I'm sure that they'll wind up handing me a cruise control relay for a DII when I get there . . .