Chris, thanks for the offer. If either of my leads don't work out I might need to take you up on it. I'll let you know in a few days.
BlLster : Here is how I found out. I first noticed the smell of fuel after a long drive (8hrs). When I got home from my trip I took a closer look under the hood and saw a pool of fuel sitting on my intake manifold on the passenger side. I'm lucky it didn't drip on the exhaust pipe or I might have been on the news
. Anyway... I could see that the #3 injector was wet with fuel. I removed the passenger side rail and switched out all 8 injector o-rings (freebee from Ford... it is good to work in the auto industry). I then put everything back where they came from. Fired her up and #3 was still leaking. I could see it starting from the top and soaking the injector from top to bottom. I thought I might have rolled the o-ring or maybe the rail was damaged so I took it all apart again and this time moved the injector from cylinder #3 to #2. Guess what... the leak followed the injector even with a replaced upper o-ring. This time I can see the leak (#3 injector on the 94/95 302 is hard to see since it is under the upper intake manifold). The leak wasn't coming from the upper o-ring, it was coming from the side of the injector housing (the plastic orange section). The Ford engineers I talked too mentioned that these injectors tend to fail internally.
About the tube.... for anyone who is confused it is the stainless steel tube which runs from the exhaust header to the EGR valve. It has two fittings and a sheath covering the tube. IT sounds like JB weld isn't going to be worth the trouble so I will get the OEM replacement. I can't believe how fragile it is, I didn't even put any real force on it yet it nearly cracked in half just below the convolutes. Not the greatest design...
SN95gt19: I'd even consider blocking it off but I think I wouldn't pass the emissions test. How well did the engine run with it blocked?
Thanks for all the replies... I feel the brotherhood
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