Sounds like either the banjo fitting on that side or the fuel hose (should have used a worm gear clamp) feeding it has become loose, common if not installed properly - certainly NOT an Isuzu issue.
VXer in the Sky
Sounds like either the banjo fitting on that side or the fuel hose (should have used a worm gear clamp) feeding it has become loose, common if not installed properly - certainly NOT an Isuzu issue.
Last edited by Tone : 07/22/2005 at 09:35 AM
Super VXer
No, not the banjo on the fuel rail. The shop reports that the leak is in the flex hose coming up from the back of the engine. The leak is below a factory spring clamp. The hose attaches to a short tube that goes to the banjo fitting. The nature of the hose leak is not known yet.
Roy
Super VXer
That connection was made during SC installation. The easy way to do it is to grab the hose with pliers and force it onto the barb. This can damage the hose.
The way I've done it on the 2 SC I've installed is to replace the hose with a longer high pressure hose, and repoint the fuel barb in a more accesable direction. It also makes it more visable for leak checking. Its not as neat and tidy looking, but I think its safer. It also gets the hose more away from EGR heat.
John C.
Super VXer
John, is this what you are thinking?
If access cannot be made to the end of the stock steel fuel line to the stock hose (Between the firewall and engine), your idea of a new metal covered fuel line attaching to the stock steel tube under the car, and running to the fuel rail may be the way to go. We will just cut off the stock line and pull out the impossible section. We would use a tube flair and AN type fitting to the new hose. Done.
Roy
Super VXer
You still need a rubber section at some point between the rail an the hardline at the firewall to allow for the engine torquing on its mount.
But yeah, make the final connection where its easy to access.
John C.
Super VXer
I was thinking of the entire armored replacement section be flexible.
Roy
Super VXer
I had to replace mine when it broke below the regulator. I had had the supercharger off once, and replaced the IMGs once, and the original supercharger makes 3 times that that hose was flexed a lot. It just fatigued enough to develop a leak. Anyway I ended up bypassing it as I could not get a tool in there to remove what was left of the hose. My new hose runs around the top instead of between the engine and the firewall.
-Tad
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