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Bruce - -
If you want a junkyard example, you can get a rust-free one off the fuel rail end of the pressure line. But that one only fits the smaller one I think it is - - no, the larger it would be. I'd look at all Saabs. And as dref suggests other European cars may also use this setup.
Get enough of the black nylon fuel line with the fitting that you can make a splice, is my recommendation. Or, if it's the line from pump to filter, open the trunk of a junkyard car, pop cover to fuel pump, and carefully twist fitting out of pump, while trigging the plastic catch, and pulling straight out. Then you can scavenge the section from fuel pump to fuel filter intact. It's pretty short, would make an easy repair though a nasty job to do in a junkyard to get at fuel filter too.
Lots of people on here, and on the C900 board, have joined two pieces of the nylon line with a section of "high pressure fuel injector hose" and fuel line hose clamps, and reported perfect success. That fuel hose is NOT cheap. Take the replacement fitting and its line with you to get the right size.
You could also slit the old line just enough to get it off the bad banjo and cut a clean butt cut. Then you'd PROBABLY be left with enough to reinsert a new banjo fitting and still bolt up to the filter. You need either a tubing flaring tool or a homemade split oak block with wingnuts to hold the line while the fitting is pressed into it. Extend tubing just a little, tap fitting in a little, extend more, tap more, etc. till fitting is home. Poke too much tubing up out of the clamp at once and it will tip over to the side, collapse and crimp and you're out of luck. And the fitting has to go in the line while "clocked" correctly, because there's no twisting it once it's started in.
You're sure it's the fitting that's rusted through? They're pretty robust. I had a fuel filter itself rust through at one end, and that took some rusting, the can is pretty heavy gauge. One of the hollow bolts at the banjo was rusted down from original size 12 mm to 11 mm I got to fit on it. But the bolt threads, and both sealing faces on the banjo fitting and one on the can were smooth and bright and like new. Banjo fitting had heavy rust with deep pits but its interior and sealing faces as I said were like new and it wasn't leaking.
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