RE: BusDepot Fuel Tank, have you installed one?Brent,

It is currently resting comfortably in the basement, but I will go down there and check.

I wonder if the stock tank really does have baffles?

Tom
83 Vanagon Westfalia 'Hammurabi' 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: BRENT CHRISTENSEN 
  To: 'Tom and Dana Cates' ; 'vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM' 
  Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 7:35 PM
  Subject: RE: BusDepot Fuel Tank, have you installed one?

  Does it have internal baffles? 

  Brent Christensen 
  '89 GL Syncro Westy 
  Santa Barbara, CA 

  > -----Original Message----- 
  > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf 
  > Of Tom and Dana Cates 
  > Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 4:09 PM 
  > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM 
  > Subject: Re: BusDepot Fuel Tank, have you installed one? 
  > 
  > 
  > Herr Doktor, 
  > 
  > I have one. 
  > 
  > I have not installed it yet, because, well because I don't 
  > really relish the 
  > idea of doing it. 
  > 
  > Sometimes on Fridays I fill her up. 
  > 
  > But maybe this weekend I will put it in. 
  > 
  > Tom Cates 
  > 83 Aircooled Westfalia 'Hammurabi' 
  > 
  > ----- Original Message ----- 
  > From: "Doktor Tim" <doktortim@ROCKISLAND.COM> 
  > To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> 
  > Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 3:33 PM 
  > Subject: Re: BusDepot Fuel Tank, have you installed one? 
  > 
  > 
  > > At 01:30 PM 05/09/2000 -0400, you wrote: 
  > > >You don't think an aftermarket company couldn't reproduce 
  > a fuel tank for 
  > > >less the $500? 
  > > 
  > > Not for $150 unless they use third world semi-skilled labor 
  > and very cheap 
  > > to ship lightweight metal. Compromise cum laude. 
  > > 
  > >  It's a fuel tank.  These are sold all over the world, not 
  > > >just the tiny USA market.  That's why they are cheap! 
  > > 
  > > No, they're cheap because every compromise was thought of 
  > to meet the 
  > world 
  > > demands of fools, who are poor, and will remain so unless 
  > they catch a 
  > clue 
  > > and begin to VERIFY before they buy what they are buying, 
  > which is what 
  > the 
  > > respondent is trying to do. 
  > > 
  > >  Some re-pros are better than 
  > > >stock--they've seen where they have failed and are designed better. 
  > > 
  > > Interested in any data you have that supports that 
  > statement. I know of a 
  > > very few and rare examples, most of them Berg parts, but 
  > then, those are 
  > > ENHANCED materials and specifications and cost MORE than 
  > dealer oem price 
  > > in some cases. 
  > > 
  > > By all means Jay, respond to the individual who has asked 
  > for the opinion 
  > > of anyone with ACTUAL EXPERIANCE as to the installation of the tanks 
  > > supplied by BusDepot. For a certainty, SOME aftermarket parts are 
  > > uninstallable without modifications and some will not work right 
  > regardless 
  > > any attempt to install them and some are just flat not 
  > installable and the 
  > > worst are the ones you do get installed by hook or crook 
  > and they fail and 
  > > take more original parts with them. 
  > > 
  > > I would expect Ron would provide people with references to 
  > clients he has 
  > > shipped these particular tanks to. Any good business 
  > person, like Ron, is 
  > > not at all fearful of word of mouth reports. That's how you 
  > tell a good 
  > > business to deal with. The word of mouth in the vast majority is 
  > possative. 
  > > 
  > > I agree that restoration of the genuine original tank is a 
  > vastly superior 
  > > idea to using anything designed to be cheap. But in the 
  > instant case, the 
  > > original was crushed and deformed and presumably not 
  > repairable. As well, 
  > a 
  > > junkyard obtained and restored original tank is a way mo- 
  > better idea than 
  > > anything designed to be cheap. 
  > > 
  > > It will FOR SURE fit with NO HASSLES, guaranteed, 'cause 
  > it's EXACTLY the 
  > > same. 
  > > 
  > > What value hath certainty??? Differs between apes of all 
  > kinds as your 
  > > opinion compared to mine doth prove. 
  > > 
  > > 
  > > 
  > > 
  > > T.P. Stephens 
  > > San Juan Island, WA 
  > 

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