Date:         Sat, 8 Dec 2007 10:08:40 -0600
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: fuel injector hoses, replacing
Comments: To: azsun99 <azsun99@earthlink.net>
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When I did the job, I did exactly this. Do it outside, cutting the clamps
with a dremel cutoff wheel produces a spray of sparks, and the opportunity
to ignite both rubber and gasoline remnant is there.
The hose pieces are on the barbs so tight that freeing them from the steel
clamps doesn't get it. They have to be cut off with a blade fine enough to
follow the contours of the barbed plastic without harming it. An exacto # 11
blade works well.

Jim

On Dec 7, 2007 8:35 PM, azsun99 <azsun99@earthlink.net> wrote:

> I know at least one other person on the list is doing or getting ready to
> do this job.
> On Ben's site he shows the short hose cut off flush with the end of the
> nipple and
> then using an Exacto knife to cut the hose from the inside. Another person
> suggested
> using side cutters to cut down through the ring clamp holding the hose to
> the
> injector. I don't have an Exacto knife and a utility knife just wasn't
> doing the job.
> Trying to cut that ring with side cutters wasn't working very well either.
> My solution
> was use of a Dremel tool with the thin cut-off blade. I VERY CAREFULLY cut
> diagonally
> down through the ring as far as I could. Then I could pry it up out of the
> way. Then
> used a new single-edge razor blade to cut down from the top, also
> diagonally and
> carefully, so as not to nick the nipple where the hose attaches. I also
> did not cut
> off the end of the hose. This gave me something to grab with pliers and
> twist and pull
> the hose off.
> I didn't cut into anything vital except the top of my thumb.
> Jerry
>