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You can reuse your old filter sock, and the hose does harden up when in the tank for a while, but this does not matter since the pump doesn't move around so the hose doesn't need to be flexible.
Holding the pump stationary while you unscrew the locking ring isn't really necessary. For a special tool, you can use a few techniques. Simplest is using a screwdriver or punch against the tabs on the locking ring to get it to move. This may not work if your lock ring is brittle due to age and being near fuel fumes. Less simple is to get a pair of really large channel lock pliers and notch them really wide open until the jaws engage the tabs on the lock ring, then use their handles as a lever to turn it. The Best Way is to make a tool out of the appropriate size of PVC drain pipe, cutting notches in the pipe to engage all the tabs of the lock ring. Then put a hole through the pipe so you can insert a metal rod to use as a handle.
Things to note about this:
1) The check valves are really fragile. Take care pulling them out. Pull straight up. Use pliers to lightly hold them. They will do you better than hands. Squirt some lubricant in before you do. Twist the check valves lightly as you pull. Unscrew the check valve keeper, don't think you can just pry its tabs back. Then you might not even need to replace some check valves. Wouldn't that be nice?
2) If you break a check valve and need to replace it, you don't need the Dorman tool. What you can do is take a brass barb from Home Depot, stick it inside the nylon fuel line, then hose clamp a length of flexible fuel injection hose to the outside of the fuel line. Use two hose clamps for redundancy. Then clamp this hose (again with two hose clamps) to the barb. I did a car like this 5 years ago and as far as I know it's still running fine.
3) Often the replacement check valves do not come with the innards that actually do the valving. These must be transferred, although it's less critical on the return line (all plastic check valve) (this is the rollover valve, so that fuel doesn't drain back through the return line if the car is rolled over in an accident). On the pressure line (plastic check valve with steel ball bearing inside), it is really important.
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