Fuel Line Union (Warning)

[mrfirepro 127 1 Cars]

Have renewed all of my fuel lines and planned to replace the union that connects the steel line to the rubber filter inlet line and was horrified that the nut has gone NFP and the olive is £35 and only comes in packs of 5.

 

The part numbers are..

 

olive (ring) 156236, not NFP but only available in packs of five which will cost more than £170

Nut 156323, recently gone NFP

 

any alternative suggestions would be greatly received as £170 is out of the question

[welshpug 1,666]

no need to replace the nut, and the olive is just an olive readily available elsewhere.

[mrfirepro 127 1 Cars]

Mei, thanks for your quick reply.

 

Problem is my nut has gone walkies.

 

Would this olive be OK as the OD of the new fuel pipe is 8.2mm

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/8-2mm-Plumbing-Brass-Olives-Tube-Pipe-Compression-Fitting-Olive-/281180496298

 

The old olive seems to be have a recess all round and a step, does this matter at all.

[farmer 328 1 Cars]

Ahhh the old Peugeot trick of nearly obsoleting a part there

[Tom Fenton 1,548]

I haven't tried this theory but I'm confident an 8mm LL series olive would do the trick.

 

My bag of 3 olives have just become worth quite a lot more than they were!

[farmer 328 1 Cars]

I used a B&Q olive am sure

[Tom Fenton 1,548]

Boring info coming, the plumbing olives although they will work aren't an equivalent. Reason being the brass olives are intended for use on soft copper pipe.

For use on steel pipe then a steel olive is required as it is hard enough to correctly grip the pipe.

If you ask for LL series olives you will get a steel olive.

[Miles 331 1 Cars]

Thats a huge mark up, The one's I got from Pug where only a few quid for the pack

[mrfirepro 127 1 Cars]

The dealer thought the same and told me there must have been some sort of admin error, when he checked he found out it was the right price. To give full credit to the dealer he is going to send them back to Peugeot and not charge me .

 

Tom - The new steel fuel pipes have a black (I think plastic) coating, should I try and remove the coating where the olive fits??

 

Will try and find some LL series olives

 

Is this the sort of olive (it does look more like the OEM one than the copper one)

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/251199908044?var=550202192674&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

Edited May 2, 2014 by mrfirepro

[mrfirepro 127 1 Cars]

Received the steel olive yesterday, unfortunately it is too long for the fitting so will search for another one. Will update a link if I find one.

[farmer 328 1 Cars]

Am hopefully getting some genuine for a reasonable price contact me later.