You can purchase the fuel removal tool at Autozone (but they had a cheapo set looked like double sided scissors made of pop metal, dont buy this one)
There are 2 sizes you will need. 5/16 and 3/8. I bought a pair of small ones that where made of metal. They almost look like a small set of kidy scissors with a hole in the end of them. Scissors without finger holes, opens up like pocket knife.
Where the hole is, there is a side that is flat and the other side has a ridge that sticks out. The side with the ridge slides (mates) into the inner side of fitting. I know this sounds or looks weird when looking at it. You have to remove the saftey clips from the fuel line first. The safety clips look like an upside down "U" one side of the "U" is longer that the other side. There a 2 of them, one for the 5/16th line and one for the 3/8th line. They pop off by pusing straight up on them. They basically clip onto the lines to keep them from inadvertently pulling apart.
Once the safey clips are remover from the fuel sending unit, then take this tool and place over the front of couper of line with the hole with the ridge facing you and place on the line. Make sure the ridge fits in and around the coupler of fuel line and pull it and the line toward you to release the line. It may appear to be difficult to remove at first, because there may be some fuel pressure built up inside the line.
The book says you can relief pressure from the line by disconnecting the inerscia ( and cranking you car for 15 cranks) swith, the cut off switch is located on the firewall, on passenger side, close to the hump of transmission. The switch is inside the car (not outside) and designed to trigger in the event of an accident. It's supposed to cut off the fuel to the car off in the event to crash your car.
Note: I did not relieve any pressure to my fuel lines, but once the 3/8th line was removed, the 5/16th side appeared to be a lot easier to remove. I believe this was due to not having any pressure inside the fuel line. Also my SUV had run out of gas, so I had an empty tank anyway, litteraly only a splash of gas was left inside the tank.
Hope that helps....
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31337 said:
Im changing the fuel pump on a 93 explorer and im getting hung up on the removing of the fuel line from the old pump.
I was looking in older threads that mentioned and had a picture of a small plastic tool that fits around the line and slides inside the clips.
where do i get those plastic fuel line removal tools? Is there a brand name for them? I went to Advance Auto Parts and Auto Zone and all they have is the metal ones that dont fit!! ive gone to the parts store 5 TIMES TODAY!!
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