Thanks, Mark.  I'll be gone for the next few weeks, but when I return I'm
going to give it whirl.

Charles
'85 Westy

At 01:41 AM 6/22/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi Charles,
>I did it on my '84 without TOO much grief with everything in place.  I did
>remove the tires for easier access.  You basically have to look at the
>position of everything and then reach in and feel your way at it.  I did
>lubricate the grommets and pipe to ease it in a bit.  One thing to be
>careful with is not to push the grommets through the holes into the tank.
>They didn't seem to want to do this on me, but it might be prudent to get an
>extra when at purchasing them (if you need grommets) just in case.  My
>failure was that one of the small overflow lines broke free from the "tee"
>and that caused the original leak.  My grommets were fine.
>Patients, Grasshopper, will almost always overcome force :-)
>Mark
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Charles McGehee" <chasm@ELLTEL.NET>
>To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 9:02 AM
>Subject: replacing gas tank crossover tubes
>
>
> > Listees,
> >
> > Sometime this month Vanagonite told of replacing the gas tank crossover
> > tubes without dropping the tank.  I can't find it in the message archives,
> > however.   Can' t remember its subject line and no key words seem to work.
> >
> > Does anyone remember this message and can you point me to it?
> >
> > Charles
> > '85 Westy
> >