Power Steering High Pressure Line Removal (7A-FE) Options

[Coomer]

I'm pulling the engine out of my purple parts Celica for practice for pulling my 4A-GE and also because my parents are having the car removed by a wrecking yard soon, and I think it's all ready to pull except for a couple things.

I have to remove the high pressure power steering line from the pump. It's a 17mm bolt with a metal gasket and the Chiltons manual has no specific instructions on removal. With a wrench and a breaker bar, I broke the bolt loose. But now it just spins with lots of resistance and when you let go it springs back to its former position. The metal on the line end and the metal on the other side of the gasket spins too.

Do you guys have any tips on how to remove this line?

[soulshadow]

Coomer that thing is a BIT*H to remove. I spent nearly 3 hours deciding what to do and how to go at it. First thing tho, is that you will need to get some type of vice grip or wrench to hold the retainer clips *Picture #3* from moving around. Next you will need your socket wrench to turn the fluid bolt *Picture #1* The hardest thing is the whole bolt assembley with *pics 1-6* will turn when you turn the wrench and that just fuk*d me up so many times. Make a lot of space for yourself so that you have room and eventually after so many turns back and forth. It would just screw right out. Have fun. You might need a buddy to assist you holding the vice grips.