I am working on a 93 240. Googling around and sounds like a bunch of guys have broken the fuel lines trying to replace the fuel filter. iPd sells the below linked fuel line that also states that the line is frequently broken. I really do not want to go there.

http://www.ipdusa.com/version.asp?st...=260&V_ID=7719

Any tips or tricks I should know about before changing it out ???

I already tore up the transmission pan where the dipstick tube attaches and really do not want to mess something else up.

 

Slow and easy's the name of the game - and I'd remove that one first, followed by the rear inlet on the filter. I have never broken this line, and I am a vice-grip abusin' man.

 

Mine was so tight i had to cut all the fuel lines, cruch the filter in a vise, and put an 18" breaker bar on it to get the fitting off. No worries just cut the banjo fitting out and clamp a piece of fuel line on it. I replaced my entire fuel line as well as that little ****in one.

 

LOL...It seems every single fastner I have removed thus far working on my neighbor's super clean 93 240 that has only been serviced at the Volvo dealership is torqued to 500 foot pounds.

I had to take a pipe wrench with a cheater bar on it to get the dipstick tube to break loose. I thought it would be smooth sailing after that.

BUT NOOO !!!!! Even after cutting the dipstick tube and getting it out from under the car I could not turn the flange nut. Hell I could not even tighten it back up much less get it apart.

I even had to put a cheater pipe on the oil pan drain plug. Had to be torqued to way over 150 foot pounds. When trying to take out the starter bolts I tried a 3/8 impact that cranks out 150 lbs on a bad day.

Top bolt was having no part of it. LOL. I know tight is right. But geezzz.

I will give it one thing. All the tranny pan bolts were finger tight. Other than that. Every bolt and nut on the thing is torqued to what I consider stupid tight.

 

yea same here. If i jack up the line its no big deal. Dont go looking for an oem one, your gonna have to make it (what fun!). Its just a ****** nipple.

 

Yeah I hate having to go to such extremes to get something apart. I will post some pic's of Nick's 93. Gold, he tinted the windows. Interior is perfect. The drivers seat looks like nobody has ever even sat in it.

160k with the original exhasut. Looks like maybe in its 17 year life it has been driven in the rain maybe 10 times. It has just given me some issues that in 40 years of working on everything under the sun.

It is being especially difficult. But it is so cool working on a car that you know is almost exactly the way it is now as to the day it was sold.

The owner is happy with the repair on the tranny pan. To my way of thinking and the absolute original condition of the car he should buy the pan and dipstick tube.