1995 540i RHD Main Fuel Pipes

[Airborneduck]

Can anyone help please? My RHD E34 540i is in the garage to have a rusted steel main fuel pipe replaced. The mechanic is having trouble identifying which pipe to order, and in fact so is the local BMW garage - the parts diagrams are not clear enough.

There are two long side-by-side fuel pipes going under the left side of the floor pan from the tank area to the engine. There is a single long fuel pipe going under the right side of the floor pan from the tank area to the engine. A total of three pipes.

I'm interested in one of the two side-by-side pipes on the left side. They each terminate in respective joints under the LHS front wheelarch liner to two short feeder pipes; from these joints the fuel lines go via the feeder pipes to the engine bay from the wheelarch area. One joint is a high pressure screwed union joint and the other joint is a simple piece of rubber hose with steel BMW clips. I need the long fuel pipe that terminates in the rubber hose joint; it is longer than the other two pipes (about the length of the car) and I believe it goes to the expansion tank under the right rear wheelarch. Can anyone point me to the right part number please? Thanks!!

[genphreak]

As you already know the items are:



Items 1,2, and 3.
1 Fuel feed line x1
16 12 1 182 171 to Apr '95 1
16 12 1 182 845 from Apr '95 1

2 Fuel feed line x1
16 12 1 182 134

3 Fuel return line x1
16 12 1 182 418

Be sure to get new brackets and so on as well.

I think the part you are after is item 16 here



Vent pipe x1
16 13 1 181 523

Note: It weighs 1.8lb so is very long. Often people miss it as double digit numbers on the diagrams don't show on the ETK too well.