Bracket fuel lines '97 Tahoe

Sep 17, 2006 2 Replies

Hi,



on my '97 Tahoe is the upper intake fuel connector broken (bad thread) and I have to exchange the inlet fuel line from the filter up to the engine. Both fuel lines are mounted with a bracket next to the firewall with the transmission-to-engine bolt.



This bolt can be reached with a 14mm wrench but it is impossible to loose it as it was tightend with nearly 50 Nm in the factory. Do you know a trick how to get the fuel line out of the bracket ? Is this bracket below open and can be bend open to get the fuel line out ?



In the Chilton manual they recommed for the transmission exchange to lower the whole unit to make the upper ansmission-to-engine bolts accessable. This sounds to much work for a simple fuel line exchange..



Thanks a lot for a hint,


Oliver


Got the screw open with a patented hollow socket system from Sears. Just for the case somebody has the same problem..

You could have slipped a piece of pipe over the wrench to give yourself more leverage.

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