fuel pump removal with fuel line connection seized on?

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fuel pump removal with fuel line connection seized on?

Postby gleem » Sat May 21, 2011 6:14 pm

replacing the fuel pump in my 92 camry. One lin is just a rubber hose and clamp. the other is a metal line with thread and nut connection. I can not take this off. I have 2 full sized vise grips on there and have used heaps of crc. there is good access and cant get to budge.

Is there anything else i can do?

Being this type of connection i assume i cant cut the metal line and put a fuel hose in.
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Postby evil_si » Sat May 21, 2011 6:45 pm

Give the nut a good smack with a hammer then try and undo
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Postby Bling » Sat May 21, 2011 8:47 pm

Are these threaded the standard way?

Been years since I did mine, but access was shit and it was stuck well on like yours is. Vise grips, tsk tsk.
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Postby gleem » Sat May 21, 2011 11:54 pm

the standard way?? i assume so. i put 2 grips on as tight as i could get them and used 2 leverage pipes and i just grated the metal
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Postby Bling » Sun May 22, 2011 12:48 am

Sorry, by standard I just meant the usual thread direction. Been a while since I did it, but I know mine was tight as f**k! I wouldn't use vice grips though, but I guess that is a personal choice :P Just make sure you're undoing it the right way, spanners wouldn't go a miss.
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Postby evil_si » Sun May 22, 2011 9:12 am

Vice grips, what the fu@k
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Postby gleem » Sun May 22, 2011 11:11 am

yeah used spanners but they eventually started slipping and slightly rounded the nut. and yeah i checked the direction of the thread
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Postby RobertC » Sun May 22, 2011 11:14 am

evil_si wrote:Vice grips, what the fu@k
Yea pretty much your problem. You need to be using some crows foot spanners. As you will strip the nut using vice grips or a normal spanner if its tight.

If you have already fkd the nut you will have to replace the whole copper line.

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Postby Scottie » Sun May 22, 2011 12:18 pm

By crows foot he means flare nut

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or these work well

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If I didn't know about the tools above I would have tried vice grips also :p
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Postby iOnic » Sun May 22, 2011 1:45 pm

Take it off at the other end. Gonna have to replace it now anyway. Next time, flare nut spanners are your friends. Vice grips have teeth, they strip the $&#$% out of things.
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