SAAB WIS ONLINE

Fuel rail

Fuel rail

To remove

Warning

Removing the fuel rails involves work on the car's fuel system. The following points must therefore be considered in connection with the work:



• Make provision for good ventilation! If approved ventilation for extracting fuel fumes is available then it must be used.

• Use protective gloves! Prolonged contact with fuel may irritate the skin.

• Keep a class BE fire extinguisher close at hand! Watch out for sparks, e.g. in connection with breaking electric circuits, short-circuits, etc.

• Smoking is absolutely forbidden.



1. Remove the engine cover and the turbocharger delivery pipe (2 screws under the wiring harness). Plug the hoses.


2. Detach the air hose from the intake manifold, bend it to one side and plug it.

3. Unplug all the cables connected to the wiring harness channel and cut the securing points. Remove the channel from the cylinder head and lay it over the engine.

4. Pull off the vacuum hose from the EGR valve.

5. Note the position of the fuel rails and their clips and mark them.


6. Remove the fuel return hoses from the cylinder head.

7. Remove the fuel rails (remove the clips if necessary).


To fit



1. Check the fuel rail connecting cones and replace them if necessary.

2. Connect the fuel rails with clips in their original positions.

Tightening torque 25 Nm (18.5 lbf ft).

3. Check the condition of the fuel return hoses and joints and replace as necessary.

4. Connect the fuel return hoses.

5. Connect the vacuum hose to the EGR valve.


6. Fit the wiring harness channel to the engine.

7. Secure the wiring harness as it was previously.

8. Refit the hose to the intake manifold.

9. Refit the turbocharger delivery pipe.

10. Fit the engine cover.