i would rather fold the line over with vicegrips and drive on 7 cyls till i get a line like i have before. yea she was down on some power but still ran just fine, with a miss. lol
I was in this exact same situation, stuck on the side of the road with a broken injector line. I caught myself at the last minute, I as thinking about pinching the line off myself. But after thinking how the injection pump works, and not knowing if there was any kind of safety relief inside, I changed my mind and did not pinch the line off, all I could picture in my mind was a busted pump.
What I ended up doing was turning the line around backwards(it broke off at the pump) and re-attaching the good end to the pump, and then bending the line around till it was near #1 injector(it was the #1 line). I took the short return line off the injector cap, and slipped it up over the cutoff injector line and used the little spring clamp to hold it on. Started the engine up, and it held! All the fuel from #1 injector was going straight into the return system.
I did have to plug off the line coming from the fuel filter head, it was leaking return fuel into the dead injector. I drove all the way from Tennessee to Pensacola Florida with it like this, on 7 cylinders.
I spent one whole day in Pensacola looking for another line. Nobody had one, and if they could get it they had to order it. I went to every junkyard in that whole town, and finally the last one I went to, the guy had mercy and let me take the #1 line off a good 6.9 he had sitting there. I told him I would pay him over $80 for the line because that was what a new one costs, and he would only take $25.00 for it. It ran fine after that and it still has that line on it, without the timing adapter on it.
So if you think you can just get these lines anywhere, think again.
Maybe?? In an emergency, maybe it might work.
