[s-cars] Fuel leak 93 S4

[Charlie Smith]

Earlier, Sam Clarkson wrote:
> 
> Hi all
> Happy new year
> I hope all you folk in the WRONG hemisphere are enjoying your snow  
> tyres as much as I'm enjoying my aircon!
> I smelt something...
> Fuel dripping out of the swaged connection between the braided hose  
> and the solid fuel line coming from the firewall to(or is that from?)  
> the fuel filter. Hmmm raw fuel near hot turbo thingy, I don't think so!
> So I cut it off and crimped on a new braided hose with those crimps  
> you squeeze with end nippers (forget what they are called sorry) and  
> all is well. My question is can that be called a permanent repair or  
> do I need to take it all off and get a high pressure swage back on.
> Ski some pow pow for me...

That's not a permanent repair.

In the US there was a recall for this, maybe 4 years ago.
The fix it to replace the leaky piece of fuel line.  To replace it
with the exact original shaped line is a lot of work, because of 
it's routing - I don't remember the details.  The recall replaced 
the line with a new line part that was shaped to fit into easily
installable areas.

Maybe someone else remembers this more clearly, and maybe has pictures
of the before and after installation locations.

Yes, I'm enjoying my 4 Nokian Hakka-1 snow tires   :-)

    - Charlie


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