So that's why the huge metal fuel filter has a little bitty plastic fuel
filter in front of it!!  I never could make any sense out of that, but
this explains it!  Fram and others can produce the filter for much less
than VW could make, ship, and stock an adapter.  Duh.  Now if we could
just get Fram to leave the guts out of it it would be even better.

David Beierl wrote:
>
> At 06:32 PM 7/19/2001, JOHN REYNOLDS wrote:
> >Spent about 4 hours today trying to find the 12mm to 8mm plastic reducer
> >fitting used prior to fuel pump on , at least, 81 Vanagons.  I believe
> >that newer Vanagons may use a 11m fuel line right to the pump, but on
> >mine 7mm line comes out of the gas tank and then is stepped up to 11mm
> >through this plastic fitting (12mm and 8mm diameter tubes)  and then
> >about 4" or 12mm line feeds into the electric fuel pump.
>
> John, the square plastic fuel filter has 8mm inlet and 12mm outlet.  Why
> not stick one of those in the line?
>
> david
>
> David Beierl - Providence, RI
>   http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
> '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
> '85 GL "Poor Relation"

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Stuart MacMillan
Seattle

'84 Vanagon Westfalia w/2.1
'65 MGB (Daily driver since 1969)
'74 MGB GT (Restoring sloooowly)
'01 Toyota Tacoma (Something I don't have to fix!)

Personal mechanic for:
'70 MGB GT (Daughter's)

Assisting on Restoration (and spending OPM):
'72 MGB GT (Was daughter's, now son's)
'64 MGB (Son's)

Stripped and gone but their parts live on:
'68 MGB, '73 MGB, '67 MGB GT