David, my mistake. upon closer inspection, i see now that the hose does go up to the tee-intersection. everything in there is routed correctly. if this return hose were to burst from pressure, what would that indicate about my system? i'm not sure that that happened at all. the hose was probably leaky then all of a sudden after we tried to start it about 25 times, it just gave up and broke. but hypothetically... Andy In a message dated 4/25/01 6:07:37 PM Central Daylight Time, jtrealty@xxxx writes: > I am going to take a wild guess here and say during a previous repair > someone changed the return line circuit! There should be 3 lines to > the accumulater but none should "loop back". One line should return to > the tank with a tee picking up the return line from the fuel > distributer. Please check out the routing of ALL of the hoses for > Soma576@xxxx 1982 DeLorean DMC-12 VIN#11596 Fargo, ND 58102 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]