Fuel rail 'quick' release connector on a 'k' series

Good Morning all fellow hippo owners

I'm looking at changing my inlet manifold gasket at the end of the week and one of the initial tasks according to the 'Haynes' book is to depressurize the fuel rail first.

Of course according to 'Haynes' it says press the sides of the 'quick release' connector on the fuel rail and it will just pull off easily.

We all know that in the real world it means squeeze the crap out of it and apply several hundred tonnes of leverage and the item will then disintegrate in you hand meaning you have to replace something even bigger and more expensive.

After searching on this and other places can anybody tell me if the 'quick release' connector does physically move and if i do break it can i use a small tight hoseclip instead to replace.

I await with eager anticipation all of the usual comments from all of the bobble hatted mud plugging tractor driving brigade

no need to disconnect, you are only moving the manifold away enough to change the gasket.

Sounds good to me. I might go with that method then, of not doing anything i like those sort. Cheers

I left the fuel rail connected and removed the inlet manifold. I was expecting something but got nothing fuel wise so jobs a good un.