High Pressure Fuel Leak

[Supazuk]

Ah, the link for -301 is just the tool. Kit with fittings is -600.

yes I was just showing the tool as its just $100 on amazon napa is like $130 the kit with all the fittings is pricey. As I said you can get them individually at napa so its a cheap way out without spending a lot

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[ShadowsPapa]

How in the world did I ever do all of this, a whole custom fuel system, without the tools..................

in-tank electric pump, Jeep Grand Cherokee filter just outside of the tank with Jeep fittings, and lines up to the fuel rail, regulator, return lines and so on.
Yes, there is one rubber hose here with a clamp - a return line. I didn't want to go buy more of the plastic line. (I have a drawer of the fittings, though)

 

[Supazuk]

How in the world did I ever do all of this, a whole custom fuel system, without the tools..................

in-tank electric pump, Jeep Grand Cherokee filter just outside of the tank with Jeep fittings, and lines up to the fuel rail, regulator, return lines and so on.
Yes, there is one rubber hose here with a clamp - a return line. I didn't want to go buy more of the plastic line. (I have a drawer of the fittings, though)

I have done it with out the tool in a variety of ways, However The dorman style tool works the best to replace the fitting:
cut tube, press new fitting in tube
no clamp needed, factory quality

 

[ShadowsPapa]

I have done it with out the tool in a variety of ways, However The dorman style tool works the best to replace the fitting:
cut tube, press new fitting in tube
no clamp needed, factory quality

Mine only has one clamp - where I used a rubber line on a return. All of my plastic lines are 'clampless'.

the tool would indeed make it a piece of cake - but at that time, I found other methods (and didn't have the money for a tool having spent so much on a stash of NOS parts and fittings and the work/money that went into the engine itself)

I salvaged all of the fuel lines from the donor Jeep, cut and fit as needed. for the return, I went with a rubber hose and used the factory steel line that had been the supply line as my return. So that was re-using a line instead of putting in a new plastic line.

I needed a flexible connection here and was using the stock supply line as my return, and since it was only 1 connector from the regulator to the return line, wasn't worth a tool.
If I was doing it today (and I do have another 4.0 that can go into another Eagle) I would likely buy the tool since I have a bunch of fittings of various types, lines and so on, it would save me a ton of time.
It took a lot of time to do all of this - but at the time, I had more of that than money.

In other words - yes, I agree and if doing it again, or even over again, I'd have the tool to make it fast and simple and clean and neat (which I absolutely LOVE in work like this- clean and neat)

This was 100% my custom work. To that date, no one had gone to the extent and extremes I did to transplant such an engine and utilize the PDC and fuel system parts.

 

[Supazuk]

Mine only has one clamp - where I used a rubber line on a return. All of my plastic lines are 'clampless'.

the tool would indeed make it a piece of cake - but at that time, I found other methods (and didn't have the money for a tool having spent so much on a stash of NOS parts and fittings and the work/money that went into the engine itself)

I salvaged all of the fuel lines from the donor Jeep, cut and fit as needed. for the return, I went with a rubber hose and used the factory steel line that had been the supply line as my return. So that was re-using a line instead of putting in a new plastic line.

I needed a flexible connection here and was using the stock supply line as my return, and since it was only 1 connector from the regulator to the return line, wasn't worth a tool.
If I was doing it today (and I do have another 4.0 that can go into another Eagle) I would likely buy the tool since I have a bunch of fittings of various types, lines and so on, it would save me a ton of time.
It took a lot of time to do all of this - but at the time, I had more of that than money.

In other words - yes, I agree and if doing it again, or even over again, I'd have the tool to make it fast and simple and clean and neat (which I absolutely LOVE in work like this- clean and neat)

This was 100% my custom work. To that date, no one had gone to the extent and extremes I did to transplant such an engine and utilize the PDC and fuel system parts.

I used it regularly when i was working in a shop that did alot of jeeps and GM trucks

 

[ShadowsPapa]

I used it regularly when i was working in a shop that did alot of jeeps and GM trucks

A must-have time saver where time = money and getting things through.
I spent weeks if not months on my project (and a year just on the paint).
Imagine the hours I could have cut off the fuel system project (and some could have been a bit neater as well)

My opinion, of course - you are spot-on as far as recommended the tool, and buying fittings as needed.
Few people would ever need such an assortment of fittings, but since Jeeps have used this type of line for decades, the tool makes sense for a DIYer.

You mention Amazon -
103 on amazon -
https://www.amazon.com/Dorman-800-301-Fuel-Line-Repair/dp/B000E35W1K

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