[diesel_mercedes] Re: replacing fuel lines on the 300sdl

 

thanks, i gather you are referring to injector overflow lines? i was told fuel tank to engine lines, but that the tank is ok and does not have a leak, but that leak is in tank area. do i have to yank tank?

--- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, Bobby Yates Emory <liberty1@...> wrote:
>
> New,
>
> What usually goes bad are the fuel return lines. There are five or so.
> When I replaced one, enough fuel return line to do all of them was less than
> $10 at a MB dealer. (Still pretty expensive for 2 1/2 feet or so of small
> tubing.)
>
> Doing it is no big deal - do one at a time - remove the old one - cut a
> matching one from the new tubing - install - repeat. There are no clamps to
> fiddle with - just slide the old tubing off and slide on the new tubing.
>
> Other people have advised not to substitute another type of tubing - get the
> real thing from MB.
>
> Bobby
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 10:25 PM, <newdlhead@...> wrote:
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> > **
> >
> >
> > i may have found an sdl. owner was told it needs new fuel lines. i was
> > told she weeps from the rear(graphic!) is this a big project? she has been a
> > sittin' two years, he says ac works. .what's the drill, anyone care to
> > point me to a previous post to save breath?
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Toward freedom,
>
> Bobby Yates Emory
>

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