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Old 08-20-2004, 05:03 PM   #1
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OK, so I've got a 94 SL1. I just got a dohc conversion from Joey. With the minor problems here and there, everything is in and hooked up fine. I went to turn the key and there was a nice fuel leak coming from where the line hooks up to the fuel rail. My question: is there some type of specific gasket or seal that is supposed to go between the hard line and the fuel rail? There was nothing in it when I got the engine, so I'm stumped. Thanks

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Old 08-20-2004, 09:21 PM   #2
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Heh heh. I had that sort of problem, once, but my car came with the DOHC. I was driving along the highway when suddenly gas started dumping out of that connection.

It turned out that a previous owner had the fuel system cleaned, and when they reinstalled the line to the rail, they substituted whatever original part there was for a stack of o-rings. Let's just say that they didn't work very well.

I went to the Saturn dealership to try to find the part. Apparently it's not available without purchasing an entire fuel rail. Big money. I did figure out what the part is, though. It's simply a nylon tube that slips over the end of the fuel line and gets compressed between the bottom of the hole in the rail, and the fitting on the fuel line.

I made one myself from a piece of solid nylon bar by drilling a hole through the middle that had an inside diameter roughly the same size as the outside diameter of the fuel line it had to fit over, then we turned the outside of the bar down to fit snugly inside of the fitting on the fuel rail. It worked perfectly.

If Joey can't take care of the issue for you, I still have a few chunks of nylon tube that only need to be cut to length.
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