I burst a fuel line today running to the head and decided to replace them all as I am going to put an electric fuel bowl delete on in a week or so. It looks like the air conditioner and mounting bracket need to come off to get to the one on the drivers side. How is it attached to the block and do I need to pull the radiator to get to it?

Thanks in advance. I couldn't find this in previous posts.

 

The air compressor itself is mounted on a pedistall with (4) long bolts, IIRC its a 12mm. Once you disconnect the four bolts, unplug the AC compressor and serp belt, you can lift the compressor and set it to the side or on top of the engine. The bracket has 3 bolts that are 14mm i believe. Anyways, you will also need to disconnect the vaccume pump, but you can leave it attached to the bracket, so you dont have to fuss with it. You should have acess to the fuel lines there.

Heres a close up after the bracket is removed so you can see where about the bolts that hold the bracket on are at..

 

Thanks MD. Your information really helped me since I knew what I was facing. Reps sent and best wishes.

 

No prob! Glad it helps! Good luck on the fuel line repair!!!

 

Sorry, but any one knows the # part for the two long fuel lines that goes parallel in this pic? And to change them you also has to pull the compressor? Mines has some corrosion in the lower part.

thanks.

PS you mentioned 4 bolts and you only marked 3 with yellow arrows ?? are thouse only for the bracket?

 

The 4 I mentioned are the long ones that hold the AC compressor onto the mounting block. The 3 bolts I was speaking of hold the mounting block onto the engine itself.

In order to get to those fuel lines easily, you have to remove the mounting block and AC compressor. If you want to save yourself some $$ and headache, dont disconnect the AC Compressor lines, just the wires. Then you dont have to recharge the AC and fuss with that. You can move the AC Compressor off to one side or the other while you get at the rest of it.

 

Ok, thank you, good tip about the AC compressor lines.
And do you know the # part for the metal fuel lines in the pic?

 

The numbers for those two fuel lines are F5TZ 9A318 C and F5TZ 9C330 C. Both of them were about $55 bucks at the local stealership out here. Hope this helps.

Red

 

Oh and what I did with the a/c compressor is I tied it up with a piece of rope as far as it could go without stretching it. Just take your time and it shouldn't be too bad.

Red

 

Aww, sheesh I wish I did.. Let me do some checking.. I unfortunately have mine all buttoned back up, so pulling the line and scanning it for the part number would seem reasonable, if it were exposed, but since its not it will take some internet searching.

 

Tank you gentleman, thats what I needed. I saved in my book.
Rep sent

 

Her Red just to update this I have the same Problem found the parts here.

I hope they actually have them.

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Hope this helps any one else.

 

Thanks for the update
rep sent

 

Thanks man Well we could not wait for them to be shipped & went with some high pressure EFI rubber hose with High pressure clamps.
The quick release was anything but. After 3 hours & finally took a air chisel to the quick removal insert. Wonder if it is covered by Auto Zones warranty. Just as I was about to give up it popped right off like magic.

Well any way the rubber lines were easy to get down in there & routed correct. Was going to go with the real lines till I say the work to get them off on top. There was already rubber lines on the bowl anyway.

The bottom of the line is where the rust always sits. She fired right up. Going on the road today for the test drive.

 

so are you going to tear it all back down and replace the rubber hose with the hard lines? or are you going to run it like that for now? i hate rubber hose esp in high pressure apps and use as little of it as possible.

-cutts-