Sweet Jesus. How do you remove the fuel line bracket near the crossmember?

[Woodsy0]

I'm in the midst of removing the fuel feed line from the pump to the rail to replace it with -6 AN lines. I've removed all of the brackets that hold the feed line to the body except for one, located under the battery against the firewall. There's almost zero room to work with, and it almost seems like the only way to access the bolt on the bracket or even have enough room to remove it is to lower the subframe...

There's gotta be a way to get this bolt off without dropping down the subframe...any ideas?

Thanks, Scott

 

[Nanan]

Cold Steel chisel and a hammer should do the trick.

 

[Woodsy0]

Good point. I realized I'm not going to be mounting the SS line in the same location as the existing feed line anyways, so I may just tin snip the two hose ends, leave the bracket in place, and be done with it.

Thanks.

 

[99redgst]

Just wondering why your only going with 6AN, seeing as how it has pretty much the same inside diameter as the stock feed line. Maybe your stock feed line was damaged or rusted? Don't see the point in spending the money on the AN stuff if its not going to increase flow.

 

[Woodsy0]

I was in the middle of replacing a stock pump with one from a VR-4, the existing feed line fittings were so rusted over and shoddy that I ended up snapping off both the hard line on the fuel pump assembly itself and the hard line connection with the rubber hose a couple feet forward (both ends of the rubber hose between the assembly and the hard line). Since I decided to replace the broken line on the assembly with a bulkhead fitting, I figured since I'd have to replace part of the feed line anyways I might as well spend the extra $30-40 and get 10ft of SS line instead of 3ft, buy another hose end and AN fuel rail adapter and go all the way to the rail.

Most likely overkill for my needs, at least for now, but since every single part of my car has broken off from being rusted over I figured I'd pre-empt at least one future fuel problem.

 

[Stapl3]

Just wondering why your only going with 6AN, seeing as how it has pretty much the same inside diameter as the stock feed line.

Stock fuel lines have gone 9's.

 

[allgripnoslip]

maybe he likes a fuel system that actually flows halfway decent ( 10 lpm compared to 2 lpm stock) http://www.stevetek.com/R-FuelSys2G.html

 

[cb3016]

I was in the middle of replacing a stock pump with one from a VR-4, the existing feed line fittings were so rusted over and shoddy that I ended up snapping off both the hard line on the fuel pump assembly itself and the hard line connection with the rubber hose a couple feet forward (both ends of the rubber hose between the assembly and the hard line). Since I decided to replace the broken line on the assembly with a bulkhead fitting, I figured since I'd have to replace part of the feed line anyways I might as well spend the extra $30-40 and get 10ft of SS line instead of 3ft, buy another hose end and AN fuel rail adapter and go all the way to the rail.

Most likely overkill for my needs, at least for now, but since every single part of my car has broken off from being rusted over I figured I'd pre-empt at least one future fuel problem.

I full heartedly agree, same thing happend to me, i'd be working on something and see something cheep and rusty and was like, no its fine, next thing I know i'm on the freeway with my oil return line dragging and losing oil like no other.

 

[Stapl3]

maybe he likes a fuel system that actually flows halfway decent

Stock fuel system doesn't flow decent? I don't understand.

 

[allgripnoslip]

no it does not read the link I posted.

 

[Tsibred1]

Dah, I'm bring this back from the dead since I can't get that damn line out either, anyone have any tips that don't require air tools?