No worries mate.
Looking at it on the vehicle changing this pipe looks like it's going to be
a world of hurt!
The offending pipe, or rather it's rusty remains, runs over the the top of the fuel tank, so the tank will need to come down, which isn't totally the end of the world, but still a bit of a pain.Where the fun begins is that after clearing the tank, the pipe then travels along the drivers side floor pan through the rear right (o/s/r) mounting points for the front subframe, where it disappears up in to a mirky spaghetti in the engine bay.
I'm still mentally planning it, but no matter how I plan it, the job is still a nightmare, likely involving a lot of transferring the engine and gearbox from one set of lifting equipment to another to another and back again. To support the enigne & gearbox I can either use my floor mounted telescopic transmission jack, and or my engine support beam. So I'm currently thinking that I'll start off by using the beam to hang off the engine, which will allow me to use the tranny jack to drop the subframe, but then the beam will likely be in my way for getting in about the firewall and top of the innerwing for the tank & pump. So I'd then put the engine and gearbox onto the tranny jack, which gives me room all around, but the vehicle's got to stay high up meaning top end work would be done on a stepladder. Alternatively I could keep the engine and gearbox on the beam then lower the vehicle with the and transfer it to a trolley jack, but then I've next to naff all room under the vehicle.
As this pipe comes pre bent as one piece from pump to rear subframe, if I start at the back to "take up the slack", I'm going to be left with a hell of a job threading the front end of the pipe into the engine bay. If I start at the front pump/BHI end, the excess will be dragging on the floor getting snagged up on the subframe/jack.
