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Has anone ever repaired a gas line leak on a (eeek) a 90's ford taurus. it is a plastic fuel line from tank to motor and new cost a couple hundred. Is there a splice for this. any help would be great. Lots of pressure and do not think hose and clamp fix would hold. Just fyi it's not my car, no really, i'm serious, just trying to help a co-worker. If its any consolation the car was given to her. free is free. Gary

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There are compression type fittings that will hold the pressure also pressure hose to go with them. I would try a hose shop. My entire fuel injection system came with hose.

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thanks, never used one though, are they as easy as they seem?

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Yes if you get the right ferrule size you just snug up with a wrench. Do not over tighten or you will collapse the plastic pipe By the way my parents live on a farm in Severy Kan. not too far from you.

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You may want to check this but your hose is probably a metric size. I would call NAPA and see what they have.
s/t

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Yes NAPA has the repair kits for plastic lines, or at least our store has it in stock, it is made by Dorman and relabeled under Balkamp for NAPA.;)

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This thread has nothing to do with trucks, so it is getting moved.
General discussion is the perfect place for this kind of thread.
Post moved.

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Through my past experiances, the best way to fix that is to get atleast 30 yards of green fuse material and slide into the leaking gas line. Get at the other end and light it. Then get back far enough so you don't get hit with flying ford parts. lol

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I am sorry for your pain. My kid went haywire and bought a used Tarass. Eventually the repair costs were approaching the original purchase price (around 5K) when the tranny puked for the second time in 20K miles. While she owned it we found that it takes about 16 hours to r&r the dash to replace the heater core, you have to pull have the motor mounts, ps pump and a bunch of stuff to replace the water pump. Takes about 4 hours and there is one bolt that is a blind r&R. Exhaust manifold crack and all the ones at the wrecking yards are cracked too. Bought stock in JB weld. When she gets it fixed tell her to sell it.

Oh did I mention that the ECM start puking every 1500 miles, are not made anymore, you just get someone elses that puked and was fixed enough to last 1500 miles. The mechanic that was replacing them under 90 day warranty (kid was driving 70 miles per day to school and back) finally paid us to not come back because the labor for r&r was not being reimbursed by the co that remanufactored them.

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the only time I have seen a ford ECM go bad is from external causes. find a better tech.

Dorman sells a kit for fixing these lines. we have it at work and it is sweet. call around to see if one has it. it uses a special tool to install the splice.

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i know you dont want to hear this but i would just replace the fuel lines if i was keeping the car i wont trust plastic repair kit ,to me thats just a temp. fix ,but again i was a ford mechanic and has been brainwashed to sell sell sell
good luck

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i never had to pull motor mounts on any tauras i worked on for getting a water pump off
what engine was in this tauras ?