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DISCLAIMER: I know this is long but I need your guys help. And please, I don't want this to turn into a Aaron bashing or "you paid to much thread." If that does happen I want this thread locked.
In my quest to make my car awesome I ran into a problem on Monday.
I had to drive across campus (yes I am useless and taking summer classes.)
The speed limit on campus is 15 mph, I usually do 25 but none the less I was stuck behind some ground workers in a tractor; so needless to say I was forced to do 25.
Well as some of you know my car isn't tuned and happens to run like shit sometimes when its cold. Well Monday was no exception, I only had to drive all of what usually takes a minute but my car had to buck like a mofo.
It's especially bad at 1800 rpms, which is right @ 15mph in 1st so I tried everything to keep the revs down so it wouldn't be so bad. Nothing helped. After I went to turn into my parking lot, I went to give the car gas and I got no power, and then it died on me. At this point I was nearly irate, and thinking the throttle cable snapped or something. I started the fucker back up and parked it. As I'm walking away I see a path of what appears to be oil and I see this.
Immediatly I think ohh fuck thats oil. I walk over luckly its gas. I pop the hood and the hood insulator is soaked in gas. Gas sprayed across the engine bay and there was about 1/8" pool of gas in the LIM! I had to take a test and as soon as I got out (praying my car didn't catch on fire.) I went over to the fucker.
Bottom line somehow the fuel injection line slipped off enough to spray gas everywhere. I really suprised it didn't catch on fire because the collector for the front header is right there.
So I got a new hose clamp slid it back on and drove it home.
The car has been sitting ever since and I found out that Aaron cut the quick disconnects because they wouldn't line up or something with the 96+ fuel rail. So, I went to the yard to day to get the 2 1' flexible lines. Hopefully this should solve the problem for now:
Pics: The line that is closer to the red coupler is the one that slid off.
New lines I bought at the yard:
As you can see one of the ends on both of the lines is rusted. Chunks of rust are actually coming off, but all the connector does it slip onto the 2 metal lines at the firewall and fuel rail. I think I should be fine just make sure not to get any rust into the lines themselves. Eventually I'll get new ones at the dealer.
I think they should be fine but I just want to make they won't completely rust out on me in a month or two.
FWIW: The motherfuckers at the yard wanted $25 for these but I was in a rush and I needed the lines.
In my quest to make my car awesome I ran into a problem on Monday.
I had to drive across campus (yes I am useless and taking summer classes.)
The speed limit on campus is 15 mph, I usually do 25 but none the less I was stuck behind some ground workers in a tractor; so needless to say I was forced to do 25.
Well as some of you know my car isn't tuned and happens to run like shit sometimes when its cold. Well Monday was no exception, I only had to drive all of what usually takes a minute but my car had to buck like a mofo.
It's especially bad at 1800 rpms, which is right @ 15mph in 1st so I tried everything to keep the revs down so it wouldn't be so bad. Nothing helped. After I went to turn into my parking lot, I went to give the car gas and I got no power, and then it died on me. At this point I was nearly irate, and thinking the throttle cable snapped or something. I started the fucker back up and parked it. As I'm walking away I see a path of what appears to be oil and I see this.
Immediatly I think ohh fuck thats oil. I walk over luckly its gas. I pop the hood and the hood insulator is soaked in gas. Gas sprayed across the engine bay and there was about 1/8" pool of gas in the LIM! I had to take a test and as soon as I got out (praying my car didn't catch on fire.) I went over to the fucker.
Bottom line somehow the fuel injection line slipped off enough to spray gas everywhere. I really suprised it didn't catch on fire because the collector for the front header is right there.
So I got a new hose clamp slid it back on and drove it home.
The car has been sitting ever since and I found out that Aaron cut the quick disconnects because they wouldn't line up or something with the 96+ fuel rail. So, I went to the yard to day to get the 2 1' flexible lines. Hopefully this should solve the problem for now:
Pics: The line that is closer to the red coupler is the one that slid off.
New lines I bought at the yard:
As you can see one of the ends on both of the lines is rusted. Chunks of rust are actually coming off, but all the connector does it slip onto the 2 metal lines at the firewall and fuel rail. I think I should be fine just make sure not to get any rust into the lines themselves. Eventually I'll get new ones at the dealer.
I think they should be fine but I just want to make they won't completely rust out on me in a month or two.
FWIW: The motherfuckers at the yard wanted $25 for these but I was in a rush and I needed the lines.
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