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• Re: fuel tank sizes
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Tue, 28 Jul 1998 08:34:13 -0100
  ...The main difference was the fuel filler neck inlet, so either could probably be used if you also had the ancilliary parts from that...
• Re: early experience of the garage
  Historical mailing list - joel walker
  Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:48:57 -0600
  ...Siphon-Transmitted-Defects are a serious problem in older cars, and usually begin with gas tanks or gas filler necks. at present, there is...
• Re: oil filler revisited
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 22 Nov 1996 19:21:30 +0000
  > Sean brought this up at the beginning of the month, the fact that the > oil filler extends so you can pour in oil easily...
• Re: locking gas cap
  Historical mailing list - george jannini
  Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:20:26 -0400
  ...the fact that it's much harder to align to the filler neck than the original- I managed to lose one that evidently didn...
• Re: Rear heater control
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:39:11 -0600
  ...Slides right out to extend > the filler neck, slide right back in when you are done. BUT - if you > didn't KNOW it was...
• Re: Syncro gas tank in a 2WD?
  Historical mailing list - SStones
  Mon, 12 May 2003 10:49:47 -0400
  ...But, the general concensus was that it would work to install the Synchro tank but you'd either need a separate filler neck at...
• Re: Auxiliary fuel tanks for Syncros and 2WDs
  Historical mailing list - Martin Jagersand
  Wed, 29 Sep 1999 17:46:55 -0400
  ...transverse frame member in order to have no "dips" in the filler neck. (For those skilled in working with composites: You can buy epoxy...
• Re: foamy green stuff
  Historical mailing list - Glen Buhlmann
  Tue, 16 Apr 1996 21:27:48 -0700
  ...this since I just recently noticed this foam on my oil filler neck and cap. I have no oil leaks that I can see...
• Fuel recovery system overhaul Parts
  Historical mailing list - Michael Townsend
  Thu, 17 Jun 1999 08:59:25 -0400
  ...Pressure Equalization Tube [1] 251 201 147 B $25.25 Grommets for pressure eq tube and filler neck small tube [3]: N 901 004...
• Re: fill up overfill
  Historical mailing list - Budd Premack
  Thu, 24 Sep 1998 02:07:11 -0500
  ...Apparently the Syncros have a LARGE filler neck which is lacking on the non-Syncros. Whatever it is, the extra gas capacity is a...
• Re: Blown hose
  Historical mailing list - Boroko
  Thu, 21 Jun 2001 02:21:55 -0700
  ...of the systems fit together. > > I had to remove the oil filler neck in order to remove this darned hose, > which means that I...
• fs 84 88 parting
  Historical mailing list - dawn
  Sun, 22 Apr 2001 19:16:05 -0700
  ...front floor hubs rotors axles windows calipers brake booster gas tank filler neck there is alot of good parts left on her the vanagon...
• Re: fuel tank problems
  Historical mailing list - Nicholas Wilson
  Wed, 3 May 2000 17:44:31 -0700
  ...Really slow filling can fool this system, as can having the nozzle >too far out of the filler neck, but I don't think...
• Re: Gas pouring out when filling the tank
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Sun, 12 Dec 2010 12:17:44 -0600
  ...filler neck. > >> > >> I had a peek down there and it seems like the vent lines from the fuel > >> expansion tank and the filler pipe...
• Help-Diesel Coolant tank needed badly!!
  Historical mailing list - Keith Olsen
  Thu, 13 Jul 2000 23:57:44 EDT
  ...to the battery) Mine has major pitting and deterioration in the filler neck and the cap is not able to make a sufficient seal...
• Re: Suggestions for removing locking gas cap w/o key
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Sun, 18 Sep 2005 03:35:15 -0700
  ...He says he's never dropped any broken tabs into the filler neck. I tried it. Took about ten seconds for the whole operation...
• Re: Vanagon choking when feeding gas
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Mon, 11 Jul 94 22:21:48 CDT
  ...now, looking at my german parts catalog for the 80-85 models, it shows four (4) different filler necks tubes, but only two (2...
• Re: Rear Wiper lead to no washer spray
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Sat, 14 May 2005 22:24:30 -0500
  ...it means quit filling. :) what happens is that the gasket between the tank and the filler neck (up to the filler cap under the...
• Re: 82 Vanagon Gas Tank Seal/Installation Question
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Strickrott
  Mon, 26 Aug 2002 12:18:15 -0400
  ...I > went to the tater filler neck on the new tank and that fixed > everything. > > Now, for the life of me I can't...
• Re: Expansion tank level; was RE: temp light blinking.
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:24:42 -0700
  ...tank to the > bottom of the neck (with the overflow tank full to the bottom of its neck) > and the system always finds the...
• Re: brake and clutch fluid reservoirs
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sun, 16 Nov 2014 09:09:32 -0800
  ...The shield had a hole so it would fit down over the fluid reservoir filler neck, under the cap. This was to protect the...
• Re: At the pump ...
  Historical mailing list - Thor Svenson
  Sun, 1 Jul 2007 12:54:20 -0400
  ...the only way it could possibly fill better is to move the filler neck point to the top of the tank instead of the...
• Re: Gas odor after fill-up => More possibilities
  Historical mailing list - Austin
  Sat, 18 Jul 1998 10:43:30 -0700
  At 09:40 PM 7/18/98 -0600, you wrote: >Roy, > > >> with a flashlight, you can see in through the filler neck hole that...
• Re: Rubber elbow connecting filler neck and gas tank on 77
  Historical mailing list - John Anderson
  Fri, 05 Jul 1996 17:37:59 -0400
  ...I fear the wire reinforced is putting too great a strain on my other filler elbow on the body. I also note, a lot...
• Window whistling
  Historical mailing list - Debra Clark
  Wed, 6 Mar 2002 20:35:57 -0800
  ...Put on a new oil filler neck, = changed oil to 20W50 and put on a new seal next to the oil cooler. Of = course...
• Re: fuel filler grommet seal
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:53:48 -0400
  ...required. > > The worst part for me, on the older larger style filler neck, is > alignment and possible too close proximity to the frame rail...
• Re: Don't top off gas tanks
  Historical mailing list - James
  Fri, 15 Aug 2014 18:12:54 -0400
  There must be something different about your fuel filler neck, or gas pumps - are they the high flow ones that used to be used...
• Re: Oil filler
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 3 Nov 1996 07:41:46 PST
  ...The neck on a Castrol bottle fits snuggly in the tube and if I get the angle cut correctly the opening on the funnel...
• Re: 82 Vanagon Gas Tank Seal/Installation Question
  Historical mailing list - 80 Westy Pokey
  Mon, 26 Aug 2002 06:39:44 -0400
  ...I went to the tater filler neck on the new tank and that fixed everything. Now, for the life of me I can't...
• Re: Operation Gas Tank: '90 into an '85
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 4 Jun 2010 13:11:14 -0700
  ...You 'should' have the better smaller plastic filler neck on both. In any case, the smaller plastic filler neck is WAY easier to work...
• Re: Part # questions
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:54:30 -0500
  ...The part number for the plastic piece around the gas filler (called Housing for Fuel Filler Neck) is 251 201 117. Mike John Runberg...
• Re: Washer fluid
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Thu, 30 Apr 1998 19:39:49 CDT
  ...what's happening is that the tank is full, and the fluid is going up the filler neck, but the tank/neck gasket is...
• Re: Gas Tank parts
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Sun, 9 Aug 1998 11:45:23 -0700
  ...78) > > 1 251-201-139-A This is the gas tank filler neck gasket > > ($6.22) > > 3 N-901-004-01 These are the...
• Re: Plugged windshield squirted
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sat, 17 Aug 2013 18:51:50 -0700
  ...You can take the tank out - three 10mm bolts on tank, filler neck has crew collar inside van, pump electrical connections pull off, hose...
• Re: Fuel Line replacement w/gas in tank
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Mon, 8 Sep 2008 17:27:30 -0500
  ...to keep in mind here, is that after you remove the filler >neck from the tank (which you do before dropping the front), you...
• Gas Tank is In!!(long)
  Historical mailing list - Max/Joyce Wellhouse
  Sun, 11 Feb 2001 14:38:38 -0600
  ...Next nightmare was pushing in the filler neck back in to the tank. My filler neck has a plastic ball check valve on it...
• Re: windshield fluid reservoir
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 5 Jan 2013 14:50:18 -0800
  ...the filler neck is somewhat casually sealed to the top of the res I believe.. and better for it to overflow there than onto...
• Misc. Stickers
  Historical mailing list - G. Matthew Bulley
  Wed, 24 Mar 1999 10:10:25 -0500
  ...mounted propane warning stickers, the "extinguish all flames while fueling" gasoline filler neck sticker, the "put the cap back on the drain pipe before...
• 88 84 73 parting
  Historical mailing list - dawn
  Fri, 27 Apr 2001 19:03:34 -0700
  ...front floor hubs rotors axles windows calipers brake booster gas tank filler neck there is alot of good parts left on her the vanagon...
• Re: Air Getting into Cooling system
  Historical mailing list - Raceingcajun
  Sun, 2 Apr 2006 14:36:53 -0500
  ...Park car for the night, when engine is "cold", install a "Cooling System Pressure Tester" on the filler neck of the coolant recovery tank...
• Re: Gas Smell: Flange to Filler Tube
  Historical mailing list - Glen Buhlmann
  Mon, 17 Jun 1996 09:01:26 -0800
  ...Well if this is the rubber boot at the top of the filler neck then here is what I had done recently. I had...
• Re: Restoration Shopping List
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Tue, 1 Mar 2016 13:20:51 +0000
  ...Diesel fuel tank filler neck sleeve& clamp. > > As an aside, does anyone have a Diesel Vanagon L rear hatch badge in > good shape? mine...
• Sorry for the Mistake
  Historical mailing list - Jeff & Jean-Marie Diebolt
  Fri, 11 Oct 1996 20:17:43 -0400
  ...It's the long plastic one that has the pull out filler neck in it. The oil fill cap screws onto this. TIA Jeff...
• Re: Rubber elbow connecting filler neck
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 6 Jul 1996 17:02:15, -0500
  This is for Steve Dolan's question on using silicone on gas tank connecting boots: I once posted that I did this for the...
• Re: blown hose?, try brake lines!
  Historical mailing list - Paschall, Mack
  Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:38:21 -0400
  ...Most definitely! > I had to remove the oil filler neck in order to remove this darned hose, > which means that I had to drain...
• <No subject>
  Historical mailing list - vwghost
  Tue, 14 Aug 2001 06:13:33 -0400
  ...fits inside it.Drive it into block.TADA no plastic dipstick/filler neck.If you need cover for the covering the hole and you...
• Re: Towing an Automatic Vanagon. Cutting the drive axles?
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:42:08 EDT
  ...ive done it before, years ago when i was a noob, and had the auto tranny fluid cook and sploog out the filler neck...
• Re: leaking gas filler neck seal
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Mon, 9 Oct 2006 16:07:24 -0700
  ...whole re-seal thing, > including the big donut seal where the filler tube enters the tank. All was well until > just last week when...
• Re: Does gas spill out when you fill your tank?
  Historical mailing list - dianne gigler
  Sun, 18 Mar 2001 15:48:03 -0500
  ...gas would come out ( about a cup > full or more) the filler neck. > > I investigated the seals on the expansion tanks along with the...
• busdepot gas tank
  Historical mailing list - gary hradek
  Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:53:11 -0700
  ...I > went to the tater filler neck on the new tank and that fixed > everything. > > Now, for the life of me I can't...
• Re: Tips and Tricks - Oil Filler NecK Extension Extension.
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:55:49 -0600
  Will keep an eye out on that. What happens is that several oil brands are distributed by regions from regional pack/bottle centers. It...
• Re: Draining the gas tank
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Mon, 19 May 2008 21:34:56 -0700
  ...I'm thinking I'll have to disconnect the filler neck where the cap goes.... Rob ps/ I'll do the fuel pump empty...
• Re: Looking for rubber filler tube neck for gas tank (and oil cap gasket)
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:07:54 -0700
  ...I have an 83.5 with the metal filler tube. Any help would > be appreciated. > > Also, when I topped off the oil this morning...
• Re: rubber grommets and paypal
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:32:43 EDT
  ...The filler neck first must be removed, then, two 13 mm bolts removed and a little prying and it comes down-it will hang...
• Re: New Toys in Town!
  Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
  Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:20:54 -0700
  ...of filler, and > just paint the > corner, mask off at the seams. easy fix.. Body work must be really cheap in Chris' neck of...
• anther speedo problem
  Historical mailing list - Thomas Brobst
  Sat, 3 Jan 2004 22:28:53 -0500
  ...Guess I'll have to use a stick down the ol' filler neck. Any insight would be appreciated. Thomas Brobst
• Lines on top of the 2WD fuel tank
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sun, 3 Mar 2013 16:52:26 -0800
  ...One thing that *really* helps for removing the fuel tank is having the later style plastic filler neck. Those come right out .. the earlier...
• Re: Cutoff not working at the pump!
  Historical mailing list - Bob Norman
  Tue, 10 Nov 1998 21:25:18 -0330
  ...I think my problem is where the filler neck joins the tank. I had a hell of a time getting the filler neck back...
• Restoration Shopping List
  Historical mailing list - Peter Kraiker
  Mon, 29 Feb 2016 21:49:25 -0500
  ...Diesel fuel tank filler neck sleeve& clamp. As an aside, does anyone have a Diesel Vanagon L rear hatch badge in good shape? mine...
• Re: '89 SYNCRO AT U-PULL IT YARD IN SCRANTON PA..cheep parts
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:18:13 EST
  ...2wd vanagons dont have front differentials or gas filler necks in the rear quarter panels... :) like i said, dont bother calling them. they dont...