i usually try my best to figure stuff out by browsing the forums, however i can figure out what this is, and why it is leaking fuel

https://plus.google.com/101094149939...ts/Nr9fXKFsccx

any help is supremely appreciated

 

It looks like it is the lower fuel rail and it is missing the pulsation dampener.
DO NOT attempt to start the car!

 

PD is on but the plastic cap is missing as well as the retainer screw.

common problem.

 

so that's probably why i've been getting bad gas mileage!?

 

how or what do i need to resolve this problem

 

the search button would help you resolve it. it is listed in the FAQ thread being a common issue.

the concensus is split that half people prefer to eliminate it and the other half prefer to spend $180 on a new one to see how long it will last them.

 

replace the pulsation damper is what i would suggest. you can get one from carquest for under a hundred bucks. that's where i got mine. it doesn't come with the cap but it doesn't leak either lol. i believe it has a 1 year warranty if i remember correctly.

the one on your car is 20 years old already and they are known for leaking and causing engine fires. good luck and hope you get it straightened out

 

cool, thank you for the info/input!!!

 

I bought a new PD last year for my 88 Vert, I think I should install it.
I had a PD let go on my 944 Porsche burst into flames, totallled, insurance paid me $6000.00, so I went out and bought a Rex 88 vert and had change. Probably the prettiets car I ever owned after my 1969 Lotus Elite, Coventry Climax engine and all.
I'll never own another Porsche, that one was money pit, had the timing belt checked by a "Porsche" mechanic on fall, before putting the car up for the winter, broke in the spring and the valves were all bent, a $3000.00 repair job!

 

My car ran without that screw, but it's not safe. Mine will be eliminated and replaced with a fpr in a custom fuel setup. I did the banjo mod on my girls stock t2.

Read this: http://fc3spro.com/TECH/FAQ/pd.html

 

ah the majestic banjo bolt appears again lol. i had bad experiences with the banjo bolt replacement and ended up ordering my new PD. i had replaced all my fuel hose from the gas tank forward at the same time that i installed the banjo bolt. the fuel IN hose kept splitting near the fuel filter. wasting tons of gas and risking a fire. it was bad. but others have used it with no problems. maybe the fuel hose that i bought was weak, but then again i kept replacing the hose from the filter forward. i eventually just added a longer hose so when it would split i could cut the split off and reattach it until pay day. it was my only transportation and i did pizza delivery so i had to have my car. but also, every time i bought fuel hose i got it from the same store and it probably came off the same roll of hose. that was my experience. hopefully things work out better for anyone else who uses the banjo bolt.

since then i had actually replaced all my fuel lines again using high pressure transmission cooler hose. it has more braids than standard efi fuel hose and is less than half the cost. in an endurance test, testing to see which hose could handle higher fuel pressure, the trans cooler hose won hands down (test was at a local shop, the gentleman who owned the shop over heard me talking to the sales rep as i was asking for a large quantity of efi fuel hose and he explained to me that the trans cooler hose was stronger and showed me pctures on his phone of the splits in the efi hose versus the trans cooler hose. he too was getting trans cooler hose to replace fuel lines on a car he was working on, so i was assured that he was telling the truth. you can see in the hose that the braids are thicker). at my local advance auto parts store efi fuel hose sells for $6.99 a foot and the trans cooler hose sells for only $2.99 a foot and is stronger. just letting you guys know.

again good luck

 

yes, because most people trust the people at the auto parts store far too much and just accept any random hose that is handed to them.

what you need is "high pressure fuel injection hose", don't just accept it without reading for something worded similarly to that on the hose itself. if the hose is cracking in a short period of time then it isn't the right type of hose for fuel. just because they are charging you for EFI hose doesn't even mean they are really giving you EFI hose. i have seen many cars come in with carburetor low pressure line installed, i could loop it around my finger because it is so flimsy which you cannot do with the right hose. or the hose they are selling is just faulty, the inner layer of hose has to be fuel resistant but the outer layer does not, this is what separates generic fuel hose from submersible which has to be fuel resistant all the way through.

i have put nearly 70k miles/10 years on my car after omitting the pulsation dampener, the fuel line has also been there for about the same amount of time and i see no problems with it.

 

so with the banjo bolt, it just goes in that little hole!? (referring to my picture)

 

it replaces the bell looking piece at the end.