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Subject: 2 hoses about 8 centimeters long, nice job ;-) Author: shogun (moderator) : member since March, 2004 : 12550 posts Posted on: 2005-12-10 03:01:56

It's right, you cannot see them. Here you can see feed fuel pump # 1 and # 2


Follow down that 2 lines. The steel lines from the fuel pumps come up in the drivers side wheel house behind a plastic cover as well as the brake lines, where they go into the engine room. I thought I could have access from there easier. No way.
Inside the engine room on the fire wall these 2 steel hoses are separated by 2 about 8 cm long fuel hoses, each side one clamp. If you are unlucky, still the original one way BMW clamps attched, difficult to remove. Buy some new clamps.
Braided fuel hose I bought from Autohaus.
The trick is to open the clamps and to remove the hoses which are stone hard, and then to assemble them again and tighten the clamps. You can get the fuel hoses easier on/attached when you apply a bit of kerosene (which is used here as household heater oil) or similar, they slip easier on. MARK the hoses, which one is feed 1 and which one is feed 2, and also the direction you have to install them, they are bended. One of them we first connected upside down and then it did not fit. So same procedure again. The steel hoses have one plastic clamp which hold them together, and then another bigger clamp for the both of them attached to another part.
Actually Take did the main job as he has done it before on his car and knew which small tools to have and how to do. I just cut the hoses to size and watched him doing it and helped pulling the steel pipes off the hoses. ;-)
As you know, we have the intakes out, the airfilter, MAF, fuel injector rails, coolant expansion tank etc., so we had "much" space.
Hose info here, maybe Take has some pics he can show.

click here.

When you scroll down further on the first page or 2, you can see that we also changed the hoses on passenger side too, return lines and breather hoses etc. Some were so brittle, they just broke like stone or glass. Do not know if you ever exchanged yours.

Have a nice day. Let us know how long it took.

shogun >>E32 750iL<< 11/88
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• Fuel lines on the v-12 Shogun chime in please - paparon 2005-12-10 01:30:15 (195 views)
  • 2 hoses about 8 centimeters long, nice job ;-) (pic) (url) - shogun 2005-12-10 03:01:56 (328 views)
    • As usual I get to stand on my head. - Paparon 2005-12-10 05:29:18 (129 views)
      • Paparon, some info in the TIS, looks difficult - leersmd 2005-12-10 17:46:19 (119 views)
        • PDF's upload exactly the same as images, but you link - DavidC 2005-12-10 23:32:15 (139 views)
          • Here's a try - page from TIS on fuel lines...... (url) - leersmd 2005-12-12 13:18:35 (604 views)
            • Great, thanks! we took it apart w/o the info - shogun 2005-12-12 22:59:54 (118 views)
              • That's easier than I thought it would be. - Paparon 2005-12-13 04:42:07 (107 views)
                • please don't do much tighten - take 2005-12-13 06:21:11 (102 views)
                  • to cold out to replace right now. - Paparon 2005-12-13 14:31:24 (100 views)