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I don't think a clamp would work as the outer shell is hard plastic. I was able to repair the insert, but it was a bit of an adventure. I tried super glue, but that didn't hold. After awhile it occurred to me that if the plastic wasn't susceptible to glue, maybe it was thermoplastic. I tried a hot wire to melt the pieces together, and almost destroyed the whole thing! What did work was to lay some fine copper wire from an electrical cord across the break, then use a small soldering iron to carefully fuse the wire into the plastic. The picture below was before filing the repair down until it would seat snuggly into the fuel line.
That seemed to work well, but it took some back and forth before I got it to seat properly.
The moral of the story is to be very careful reconnecting the line. I suspect that if the line isn't lined up properly with the metal line coming out of the fuel pump, the metal line will catch part of the insert and break it off. Think of lining up a bolt with the threads of a nut to avoid cross-threading.
And by the way, I found that a barbecue fork that I used to use to remove the door panel of a 240 would work well as a fuel line removal tool. Would probably work better if the prongs had been filed down a bit.
Also, I found that the IPD website is a bit misleading. They talk about a fuel pump with a black plastic outer sleeve. Mine (part no. 0-580-453-037) had a metal sleeve. Looked like the other one that they show, so I ordered that. Wrong item. The moral of THAT story was to measure the diameter of the pump.
So then by the time I got everything back together, I got to experience lawn mower syndrome for the first time. Glad I knew what to do to get the car started (after recharging the battery).
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'96 850T and '83 244 DL both at about 200K, '97 850T5; gone but not forgotten '81 245 and '64 Amazon
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