1999 S70 Repairing/replacing fuel line 9205160 Topic is solved

[Peevarino]

I have those compression fittings at work! Good to know!

[FlyingMoose]

Both nicely done. Add an engineering inspection protocol to those repairs. Your nose will tell you if you have a seep, but 10 seconds under with a flashlight looking for staining will catch it earlier.

I would say once a season, every three months.

One of the beautys of doing your own car repair is you can manage costs by a simple solution plus awareness.

A garage can't do this for liability, and will make you replace $2000 of OEM fuel line from Sweden.

That is a great point! I just did one yesterday and it looks good. I'll probably check it out again in a month to be sure of short term success before making a point to poke my head under there a few times a year

[abscate]

I have those compression fittings at work! Good to know!

Using work resources to fix your transportation to work is clearly fair game.

Thats the defense I used when I built an entire garage out of Post-Its.

[rrres]

You don't even need the quick-connect thingy.

My 1998 BMW uses simple hose + clamps. No quick-connect.

Anyway, the youtube video below showed this idea (simple fuel hose + clamps) on a 1998 V70:
Remember you are clamping a plastic tube (the broken side), so go easy bc you are not clamping a metal nipple.
On the fuel filter side, you can go a bit tighter.

There was an update on the hose repair featured in the above youtube video. The repair lasted 8 months before it started leaking around the clamps. Tightening the clamps bought extra time but they leaked again.

https://www.matthewsvolvosite.com/forum ... hp?t=77135

[abscate]

If you oetikered those hoses they would hold at the fuel pump pressure of 60 psi