I know there are some threads on this already, but ive yet to find one where the tank is not ripped out or the car is sawed to bits.

It did not start one morning and i found out i had no fuelpressure. Pumped the fuel out and checked through the fuelsensor hole in the rear of the tank.

I saw the (apperantly common) issue that the fuel pump feed hose has come off.


Fuel pump hose is off and the damn clamp is faced the wrong way...

Now how do i fix this without removing the tank or hacksaw my way through the car? Is it possible?

 

UM, lots of beer first and foremost.

Tank out is what I have done on 4 of them, one being an R thus 2 pumps.

The 1st one took 2 days, and the Jag Gods were siscussed at great length.

The others all done and running inside 8 hours. Bear in mind I am OLD, physically challenged seriously, so beer was the pain killers, but it really is not as bad as it looks.

The thing to be VERY careful of is the under car pipe "unplugging", using the correct tool, BUT there is an edge of steel right there, and it is razor sharp, and I still have the scars, so just watch yourself there. I doubt blood letting is in the workshop manual.

Have fun, its what life is all about.

 

Hi Francis! Ive seen you alot on this forum and youve helped me alot without me thanking you in the specific thread, thank you for all your previous help!

Well, heres the worst part...

This is my only car, and the closest store with real beers(over 2.5%) is over an hour away with a bike.
I really need a quick fix for this one in order to get the supplies(beers) to fully finish this job.
Ideally it would be great to finish this job without having to pull the tank so that i can use the supplies in my sofa instead.

Im gonna try to pull the hose towards the hole and replace or spin the clamp so that i maybe can put it on with some tool.

 

Laparoscopic surgery???????????????

I hope it works out for you.

 

No worries glad to help where I can.

Not having looked through that hole, I dont know what you see.

A pair of long/needle nose pliers, if you can see that hose, as you said, could be a plan.

Getting it and the clamp back on the pump would be fun I reckon.

Tightening that camp would be a challenge, but there is always a way of doing things.

Good luck either way.

 

Do you have any thin teenagers around? You might be able to find someone with small enough hands to get in there and reattach it….I can get most of my wrist in there, but then the meat by my elbow prevents me from getting any further inside.

 

I actually managed to do it!

After many tries with a long screwdriver in the fuel sensor hole, i gave up with that approach. The fuel sensor hole is not much bigger than an empty toilet roll, so i doubt anyone thin would manage to fit any arms through there. The fuel pump is also mounted about 20cm from that hole so not really possible with only tools.

However, I removed the rear seats in order to remove the hole on the top of the tank. Keeping the tank in the car and not hacksawing anything i opened the hole, disconnected the evap tube + electrical cable and moved the cap to the drivers side. I dont have a cd changer or an amp under my shelf so i could reach my hand down there while laying in the trunk. Surely a thin teenager would have it easy in the top tank hole, but i managed myself with only some slight bruises on my arm.
I could put the hose on the fuel pump and rotate the hose clamp so that the screw faced the fuel sensor hole. Holding the hose clamp with my fingers with the arm through the top hole on the tank. A second person could reach the long screwdriver in and screw the hose clamp screw through the fuel sensor hole. After it was secured enough i could take a spanner secured on a string(to not lose it in the tank) and reach down the top hole on the tank to really tighten it hard.
If anyone is attempting this they can reach out for a more detailed explanation...

Im really surprised i managed to actually do it and the buzz i got from all the gasoline vapors i breathed managed to keep me entertained without beers. The headaches really took atoll on me though...

Im writing this while using my newly bought supplies...

 

I'm puzzled what the rear seats had to do with it, though? If that helped, sounds like someone got there before you and sawed your car up. Did you perhaps mean you removed the boot trim panels?

 

Yeah, it is entirely possible to do this without removing the seats. I removed the seats to get a better view of the top cap and to remove the hose from the evaporation unit. It was also helpful when removing the top cap, hammering that cap off from both directions made it come off a bit easier than if i would have only done it from the rear.