[Vwdiesel] injection line questions

[Harmon Seaver]

   Seems like I vaguely recall something about that in my IH crawler manual,
IIRC, it was caused by a hammering in the line because of a faulty
injector? Perhaps leaking comression into the line?


On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 09:37:57PM -0500, Shalyn Shourds wrote:
> Anybody ever have an injection line crack and leak?  We have one D24
> Volvo that has had several injector lines crack and start to leak.
> Never had anything else in our fleet do that.  Seems to keep happening
> on long road trips through desolate areas where there isn't exactly a VW
> Diesel shop on every streetcorner.  Previous owner of that car had had
> it happen too.
>
> Therefore, another pertinent question:  Somewhere, long ago, I remember
> seeing an emergency fuel injector line repair kit.  Had some kind of
> heavy-duty plastic line.  Not a long-term fix, but has to beat having a
> fuel soaked hot engine in the middle of nowhere Arkansas.  We're sort of
> inclined to keep something like that in the car now, but cannot remember
> where we saw it.  May have been in the Parts Place catalogue, but after
> my dealings with them, I threw all of the catalogues out.  I though it
> was in one of Dad's Mercedes catalogues, but no dice there.  Any ideas?
>
> -Shalyn
>
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