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I'd say let it lie. Not cause of no-start.
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Posted by RayF (more from RayF) on Wed, 19 Sep 2012 07:31:42 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: how to fix?, dref, Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:17:21
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The kink is a worry but if it's not leaking it's not likely to leak. Nothing moves back there.

It doesn't seem it would prevent your car from starting. Even with a smaller cross section a lot of gas is going through that line.

There is a way to fix such breaks. There's not enough line for you to shorten it by anything and stretch it to fit the banjo fitting, so there are two options:

Buy or junkyard-acquire a new banjo fitting with a length of fuel line on it. Or, just cut through the kink and make your splice there.

People have sworn that sleeving a break with high-pressure fuel line hose (it's FAR from cheap) and applying special hose clamps, straight onto the nylon line, has worked fine. The hose clamps should be made for fuel line, full-circle type.

Good reason not to bother changing a fuel filter unless real certainty it's bad is, holding everything still while breaking the nut isn't easy and kinking or breaking a fuel line can happen. I have a C900 fuel filter, coffee-can size, that I cut open. It's MASSIVE inside, has more filtering medium than you can believe. I think it's a lifetime part, there's not much naturally getting into the fuel tank that could begin to stop a clear path through for enough fuel to run your motor at any throttle setting with any level of boost.

Mine went bad on an around-300,000 mile car when it rusted through from the outside. Filter paper looks virgin.

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