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Thread: Fuel smell - leak under the bonnet

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    Fuel smell - leak under the bonnet

    Hi all,

    I performed a quick search and didn't find what I was wanting.

    To me this looks like the fuel lines and from other reading the one with the blue marker is the return.

    I am wondering if the flexible hose comes off?


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    The flexible rubber is swaged/crimped on.

    You can try and replace the hose clamp with a worm drive-type one, and see if the tighter fit stops the leak.

    Failing that, you might have to pull the whole fuel line out, and have Pirtek do a cut-and-shut on it with new hose.
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    Thanks for your answer, i suspected that.

    I was hoping the leak was in an easy spot, alas when running I can see the small stream of fuel from the smaller hose.

    Looks like I need to replace the whole line.

    Is that a made to measure piece?

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