I could not do this when I did it. Wonder if the brand of hose makes a
difference. If you reused the rings, were they in excellent shape? When you
cut the old ones off, were you very careful not to cut the barbed end? When
you cut the hose, was it flush & straight? When you put the hose on, did you
make sure that it was all the way pressed on? I had to remove the injector
to do all this. Connection clean? As you can see you have to go through a
lot of trouble to do this right. That's why it is much faster and easier to
use a hose clamps.

Bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
> Of David Beierl
> Sent: Saturday, July 03, 1999 11:02 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Fuel injector rings
>
>
> I recently replaced fuel hosing, using Bus Depot hose (not Continental but
> looks the same) and keeping the metal rings on the injectors.
> While trying
> to remove an injector electrical plug with an overtight spring, I
> found gas
> squirting on my fingers.  Bending the hose sideways reproduced this.  I
> couldn't pull the hose off straight, but I could bend it hard
> over and work
> it off fairly easily.  I don't know how safe this is in service, but I
> decided that hose clamps were the way to go for me...
>
> david
> David Beierl - dbeierl@ibm.net
>