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• Buzzing Fuel Pump After Fuel Filter Change
  Historical mailing list - Josh Greenberg
  Tue, 9 Mar 2004 17:37:42 -0700
  Folks, Last week I installed a new fuel filter because it had been a while. I also installed a new air filter, distributor cap...
• Correction: Buzzing Fuel Pump After Fuel Filter Change
  Historical mailing list - Josh Greenberg
  Tue, 9 Mar 2004 17:40:21 -0700
  The buzz is coming from the FUEL PUMP and not the FUEL FILTER as written in message text below. Sorry. > Folks, > > Last week I...
• Fuel Filter question
  Historical mailing list - David Maurio
  Fri, 1 Aug 2003 19:56:45 +0000
  ...was my fuel filter changed from stock? would this fuel filter still work on my van? Is the metal one the stock filter? Thanks...
• Re: Fuel filter
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Oxroad
  Tue, 15 Aug 2006 04:33:44 EDT
  I don't remember the year it all changed, but THE ONLY fuel filter on my 83.5 Westy from the factory is that...
• Re: fuel filter 85gl
  Historical mailing list - Wes V
  Wed, 2 Jan 2002 16:53:38 -0500
  ...fuel filter 85gl > question: has anyone had a fuel filter cause cutout, my fuel pump > and filter are sorta new, but I do alot...
• Re: pre-pump fuel filter
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Holser
  Tue, 2 Jun 1998 12:59:58 -0700
  > I have a question concerning the fuel filter in front of the fuel pump. I > understand that there was either a recall or a...
• Re: Placement of Fuel Filter
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Mon, 16 Jul 2001 10:12:00 -0700
  Here's my OPINION on fuel filter placement: Filter before pump - nice clean fuel through the entire system. Until filter plugs. Then no fuel...
• Re: Correction: Buzzing Fuel Pump After Fuel Filter Change
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 9 Mar 2004 23:29:11 -0500
  ...Buzzing Fuel Pump After Fuel Filter Change The buzz is coming from the FUEL PUMP and not the FUEL FILTER as written in message...
• Re: location of fuel filter 85 vanagon
  Historical mailing list - BILL
  Tue, 2 Jun 1998 19:48:21 -0600
  > > On my 85 Westy, the fuel filter is visable from under the van. There is > >only about 20 inches of fuel line between the...
• Fuel Filters
  Historical mailing list - The Martins
  Thu, 18 Dec 1997 12:24:39 -0600
  I have been unable to find a fuel filter for my 85 Van locally. Then I started thinking, it just has to filter the...
• Re: Relocating syncro fuel filter
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Tue, 28 Dec 1999 17:52:22 PST
  In the last three years I've been stranded 3 times by vehicles with clogged up fuel filters: a Vanagon, an Audi 100, and...
• Re: Fuel Filters vs Fuel Strainers
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 6 Oct 2010 14:06:19 -0700
  ...Digifant Vanagons ( 2.1 wbxr engine ) use one 'large silver can fuel filter' downstream of the fuel pump. that's all they have .. unless...
• Re: Placement of Fuel Filter
  Historical mailing list - �ric Giroux
  Mon, 16 Jul 2001 11:56:18 -0400
  Folks, there are SEVERAL designs when comes to the fuel-tank / fuel-filter-type-and-placement combo...here is MY understanding... up to 1985...
• Fuel Filters vs Fuel Strainers
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Wed, 6 Oct 2010 15:26:00 -0500
  ...The *_main fuel filter_* is a metal cylinder which mounts behind the fuel pump. *_It has a finer filtering mesh to protect the fuel...
• Number of vanagon fuel filters... addon to broke-down email
  Historical mailing list - Harry Hoffman
  Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:49:28 -0500
  Hi All, So, I replaced the "main" fuel filter on my vanagon. It's a large cone shaped bosch fuel filter that is inline...
• Re: fuel pump fuel filter
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Fri, 19 Jan 2007 05:23:18 +0000
  ...Anyone know why? Todd I just checked my other german car and it also has a fuel filter after the electric fuel pump. -------------- Original...
• Relocating syncro fuel filter
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Tue, 28 Dec 1999 09:21:06 PST
  I relocated the fuel filter on my 87 syncro to a much more accessible location in the engine compartment. The original location was above...
• Re: Fuel Filters vs Fuel Strainers
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Wed, 6 Oct 2010 15:59:14 -0500
  ...The *_main fuel filter_* is a metal cylinder which mounts behind the fuel pump. *_It has a finer filtering mesh to protect the fuel...
• fuel filter question
  Historical mailing list - Mark Cumnock
  Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:23:41 -0400
  Got a fuel filter question: I changed both my fuel filters, the one before the fuel pump, and the one after the fuel pump...
• Re: Relocating syncro fuel filter
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 28 Dec 1999 19:10:36 -0500
  The fuel filter is not self cleaning, but has sufficient capacity that it should last the "normal" life of the vehicle or the first...
• Re: Bosch metal fuel filter - made for same or different fuel line diameters?
  Historical mailing list - Justin B. Jensen
  Sun, 17 Sep 2000 21:08:21 -0600
  ...Ordered a new fuel filter from one of our list vendors and received a Bosch metal one - apparently good. The old fuel filter that...
• Re: location of fuel filter 85 vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Robert Williams
  Tue, 2 Jun 1998 12:12:30 -0700
  Leo, On my 85 Westy, the fuel filter is visable from under the van. There is only about 20 inches of fuel line between...
• Re: Fuel filter
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:33:21 +0000
  ...Fuel filter To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > I like the idea of BOTH filters...but I tend to be a king of > overkill... > Maybe...
• Re: Number of vanagon fuel filters... addon to broke-down email
  Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
  Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:08:04 -0700
  Early filter before fuel pump-pre 1985+- IIRC. You can run both like I do in my 84. YMMV, Mr. BZ-already had the...
• Re: 1.9L Fuel Filters
  Historical mailing list - Roger VanTill
  Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:48:31 -0400
  ...It will filter the fuel before the pump and keep it happy. Definitely add the metal can to the system. It's a much...
• Re: Relocating syncro fuel filter
  Historical mailing list - Alan J. Flint
  Wed, 29 Dec 1999 06:30:25 -0800
  ...Relocating syncro fuel filter > > > > I would consider this a bad move. This fuel filter, is "self cleaning" > > and "never needs changing". Thats why it...
• Re: Fuel filter
  Historical mailing list - David Bohannan
  Tue, 15 Aug 2006 06:21:40 -0400
  ...Maybe I will add the larger filter after the fuel pump on my 85's :-) Dave 85 GL "Baby Bus" 85 "Goldy" On 8...
• Re: Fuel filter 85 vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:46:01 -0500
  "Typically" '85s only have the square plastic fuel filter that is between the fuel tank and the fuel pump. Yes, the inlet and outlet...
• Re: Relocating syncro fuel filter
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Tue, 28 Dec 1999 16:40:01 -0500
  ...Insert the fuel filter in > place of the nipple and use the nipple in place of the original fuel filter. > Using the nipple in...
• Re: Fuel Filters vs Fuel Strainers
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 6 Oct 2010 15:27:19 -0700
  I sure have, it's a typical folded paper filter element inside. It's good to cut fuel filters open once in a while...
• 1.9L Fuel Filters
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Lincoln
  Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:29:26 -0400
  ...On the 1.9L engines the fuel filter was the small square plastic filter located between the fuel tank outlet and the fuel pump...
• 86 fuel filter fix and frustrations...
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Fox
  Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:03:54 -0600
  If you have an 86 with 2 fuel filters listen up... VW discontinued production of the small square fuel filter before the fuel pump...
• Re: Fuel Filters vs Fuel Strainers
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Wed, 6 Oct 2010 14:26:33 -0700
  ...This was used as the ONLY filter on 75-79 Fuel Injection L-Jet engines on Beetles and Buses. In a difference of opinion...
• Re: 1.9L Fuel Filters
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:18:48 -0800
  ...9L engines the fuel filter was the small square plastic filter > located between the fuel tank outlet and the fuel pump - however on the...
• Re: Fuel Filters vs Fuel Strainers
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Wed, 6 Oct 2010 18:13:12 -0500
  ...Fuel Filters vs Fuel Strainers I sure have, it's a typical folded paper filter element inside. It's good to cut fuel filters...
• Re: location of fuel filter 85 vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Austin
  Tue, 2 Jun 1998 18:28:08 -0700
  At 12:12 PM 6/2/98 -0700, you wrote: > On my 85 Westy, the fuel filter is visable from under the van. There...
• Re: Fuel Filters vs Fuel Strainers
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Wed, 6 Oct 2010 17:04:25 -0500
  ...This was used as > the ONLY filter on 75-79 Fuel Injection L-Jet engines on Beetles and Buses. > > In a difference of opinion...
• Bosch metal fuel filter - made for same or different fuel line diameters?
  Historical mailing list - Todd Guttman
  Sun, 17 Sep 2000 21:03:28 -0400
  ...Ordered a new fuel filter from one of our list vendors and received a Bosch metal one - apparently good. The old fuel filter that...
• Re: 1.9L Fuel Filters
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Martin
  Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:49:13 -0700
  I like the idea of a pre pump filter too BUT... The one time I've had a fuel pump failure (20+ years of...
• Re: Fuel Filters vs Fuel Strainers
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Wed, 6 Oct 2010 16:48:26 -0500
  ...Fuel Filters vs Fuel Strainers > > >> In working with my two vans that were stored for 10 years, I have had >> to deal with many...
• Re: Fuel filters
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 4 Aug 2010 12:39:37 -0700
  ...and those came stock with just the small fuel filter between fuel tank and fuel pump. it is common to add a 'large silver...
• Re: plastic filter before the fuel pump...was moved inside the tank...
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Sun, 17 Jun 2001 21:17:25 EDT
  The change in the fuel filter might be that VW move the filter INSIDE the tank as a fine mesh screen rather than the...
• Re: Fuel Filters vs Fuel Strainers
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 6 Oct 2010 17:30:52 -0700
  ...http://shufti.wordpress.com/2010/08/03/syncro-fuel-filter-replacement/ alistair On 6-Oct-10, at 3:04 PM, John Rodgers wrote: OK...
• Re: My '84 1.9L has two fuel filters!
  Historical mailing list - Erik Valeur
  Sat, 2 Feb 2002 15:34:03 +0100
  The plastic filter between the fueltank & the fuel pump was put there by a PO who had to buy a new (expensive) pump ruined...
• Re: Fuel Filters vs Fuel Strainers
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 6 Oct 2010 15:30:36 -0700
  ...The *_main fuel filter_* is a metal cylinder which mounts behind the fuel pump. *_It has a finer filtering mesh to protect the fuel...
• Fuel line valve for changing a fuel filter
  Historical mailing list - developtrust
  Fri, 19 Dec 2003 11:28:42 -0800
  Has anyone who changed a fuel filter added an in line valve similar to plumbing valves on hot water tanks that we can turn...
• Fw: [Syncro] Relocating syncro fuel filter
  Historical mailing list - Davidson
  Tue, 4 Jan 2000 13:08:10 -0800
  ...Insert the fuel filter >in >>> place of the nipple and use the nipple in place of the original fuel >filter. >>> Using the nipple in...
• Re: Thanks again! Fuel pump repair (longish)
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Schmitz
  Thu, 3 Aug 2000 16:23:47 -0700
  ...The pump in the Vanagon pressurizes the fuel lines to around 30 psi, and plastic fuel filters are probably not a good idea (at...
• Re: fuel filter
  Historical mailing list - Howard Fleming
  Sat, 11 Nov 2000 15:01:56 -0500
  The round metal filter goes between the fuel pump and the engine. The white square filter goes between the fuel tank and fuel pump...
• fuel tank outlet vs fuel filter inlet
  Historical mailing list - Peter DiFalco
  Sun, 16 May 2010 13:28:52 -0700
  ...either my fuel tank was specifically designed with a larger outlet to not use that filter and to plumb right to the fuel pump...
• Re: [Syncro] Relocating syncro fuel filter
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Tue, 4 Jan 2000 12:30:27 PST
  ...Insert the fuel filter >in > > place of the nipple and use the nipple in place of the original fuel >filter. > > Using the nipple in...
• Re: low fuel pressure and lean engine
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Mon, 5 Jul 2004 08:47:38 -0700
  The reason there is no fuel filter before the pump is because VW put a fine mesh filter in the fuel tank to keep...
• Re: Fuel Filters vs Fuel Strainers
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Wed, 6 Oct 2010 16:05:33 -0700
  ...Fuel Filters vs Fuel Strainers | |Then one wonders why VW thought it adequate on 86 and later vans to have |only the large downstream...
• Re: Fuel filters- diesel vs. gas.
  Historical mailing list - Mike Catlin
  Thu, 7 Sep 1995 20:38:19 -0700 (PDT)
  ...There are no spin-on fuel filters made for gasoline I don't know whether a diesel fuel filter would work for gas, but...
• Fuel Pump to Canister Filter Fuel Hose Size?
  Historical mailing list - george jannini
  Sun, 26 Aug 2012 15:59:20 -0400
  1989 stock fuel system, single filter only. I'm underneath the bus looking at a fuel pump replacement job. I want to replace that...
• Changing fuel filter- what am I missing here?
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Sun, 25 Jun 2000 15:33:43 -0500
  ...Today was my first crack ever at changing a fuel filter on my 84 Westy 1.9. Both Haynes and Bentley show the fuel...
• fuel filter
  Historical mailing list - Seth Bruggeman
  Sat, 11 Nov 2000 11:44:16 -0800
  Hello all-- I'm in the middle of changing the fuel filter on my '84 Westy and have hit a stumbling block. As it...
• pre-pump fuel filter
  Historical mailing list - db25
  Tue, 2 Jun 1998 12:52:00 EDT
  I have a question concerning the fuel filter in front of the fuel pump. I understand that there was either a recall or a...
• Re: fuel tank outlet vs. fuel filter inlet
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 16 May 2010 22:22:54 -0400
  ...fuel tank outlet vs fuel filter inlet I'm resealing the tank on my 89 today ... and yesterday (everything takes me 4X longer than...
• Re: Fuel Filters vs Fuel Strainers
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 6 Oct 2010 16:17:49 -0700
  ...Fuel Filters vs Fuel Strainers > My '85 (Cal) has only the metal can. First pump went out after around > 250K > (I've had it...