At 00:05 14/06/01 -0400, you wrote:
Date:    Wed, 13 Jun 2001 16:34:08 -1000
>From:    Mick Kalber <hotlava@INTERPAC.NET>
>Subject: Re: Re.Spillage when filling the gas
>
>>  Difficulty in filling the tank,slow filling or spillage out the neck
>>  is not in any way an inherant problem with the VW filler neck design.
>
>Steve...
>
>Every syncro owner I've talked to has said they had problems filling the
>tank to the top... once you get to the last fourth or fifth of the tank it's
>click, click, click... adding little bits at a time til the cows come home.
>Takes forever.  If it's not an inherent problem why do we all have it?  Are
>there some syncro owners out there who don't have this problem?

 Yea...sorry,I was referring to 2WD vans,musta missed the syncro part
 in the original post.The different position of the tank & filler neck
 obviously does creat some difficulty.
 But unless the US-bound 2WD vans had a different filler neck,which
 I guess IS remotely possible,I wonder what the problem can be?
 Mine is all original & has never given me an ounce of trouble in 9 years...

 Cheers,
 Steve O