Aye brute force is the normal tactic but I tend to break things that way and I dont want to rip the mounting bracket out.
The pipe to the metering unit does have a kink though that I tried to straighten and I bent one of the ends at No 1 injector so may just have to buy the braided ones at some point.
Any recommended suppliers other than;
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