At 11:01 AM -0700 7/20/01, Stuart MacMillan wrote:
>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?
> >

        Somewhen in the dim past I recall that plastic reducer succumbing
        to alcohol induced rot and braking on one of my campers...the
        replacement from the local VW dealer (amazingly he had the part!)
        was made of brass.

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