Quick connect fuel pump assembly

A quick connect assembly for connecting a fuel pump outlet line to a fuel supply line which comprises:

• a housing having a circumferentially continuous recess therein for receiving a grommet and a passage communicating with said recess and the exterior of said housing and constructed and arranged to receive a first line and communicate such first line with said recess, a grommet received in said recess, said grommet being of one piece of a flexible and resilient material and having a central portion with a through passage constructed and arranged to slidably receive a second line in sealing engagement therewith and to communicate such second line with said passage in said housing, a circumferentially continuous outer wall portion integral with and encircling said central portion and constructed and arranged for sealing engagement with said housing when received in said recess thereof, said recess for the grommet opens to the exterior of said housing, a cover overlying the opening of said recess and removably received on said housing, a clearance hole through said cover for passage of the second line into the grommet through said cover, and said grommet having an annular groove between said outer wall portion and said central portion constructed and arranged to communicate with said passage through said recess so that pressurized fuel in said assembly urges said outer wall portion of said grommet into sealing engagement with said housing and said central portion into sealing engagement with such second line when received therein.