I'm totally scr*wed. Superbowl Sunday I had a small leak where the fuel rail connects to one of my fuel injectors. I called all the local auto part stores (5) and found one that said they had the o-rings. I picked them up, pulled the injectors and the fuel rail and put the new o-rings on. (many of the old o-rings just snapped coming off the injector)
So far so good, but when I tried to put the injectors back into the fuel rail, they won't go. I really gave it a good try, then I decided to take a look at the old o-rings. It turns out that my original rings come in two flavors. A slightly larger one for the injector to engine seal and a slightly smaller one for the injector to fuel rail. Unfortunately, the new rings only came in one flavor, the slightly larger one.
Today (Monday) I had a friend with a working car pick up a new set from my jeep dealer, part # 83503637. Guess what, they only have the slightly larger size in their kit as well. My dealer said that this is the only o-rings they have. In his look up, he said that the seal kit was susposed to have two types of o-rings, black and brown, but the actual packages only have one type.
Can anyone point me to a source for the o-rings that go on the fuel rail side? Is my dealer just too stupid to look up the part correctly? Is my XJ going to be mothballed because of an $0.89 rubber ring? If I can't get the right size rings, can I use a gasoline resistant RTV instead? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
TIA