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Subject:Re: Reality check
From:Joseph Fortino
Date:Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:01:41 -0800

might have to still drop the tank huh?

thanks much
Joe

On 16 Dec 2002, Mike Miller wrote:

> Usually it's the vent lines on top that are
> leaking so it may not be the actual tank.
>
> YMMV>
>
> Mike
>
> On 12/16/02 12:34 PM, "Joseph Fortino"
> <fortinoj@SPEAKEASY.NET> wrote:
>
> > my friend had a 21 window pop out windows in
> > the front burn up. 1 good thing about VW
> > metal is you can always reuse :) i need my
> > gas tank replacd * drips on full tank
> > sometimes.
> >
> > On 16 Dec 2002, Robert Keezer wrote:
> >
> >> That looks like Pat Callaghan's green '77
> >> adventurwagen that burned completely in 15
> >> minutes last summer near The Dalles,
> >> Oregon.
> >>
> >> He was coming back from a camping trip-
> >> first trip in the new bus. He had replaced
> >> half the fuel lines- but not all.
> >>
> >> If this is his Bus, coincidently this is
> >> the same bus I installed a gas heater in
> >> three years ago for the PO.
> >>
> >> He has offered this warning many times too-
> >> make sure all the fuel lines are replaced
> >> at least every ten years, not every twenty.
> >>
> >> Wasn't the heater that started the fire- it
> >> was 100 degrees out that day.
> >>
> >> Robert K
> >>
> >> 1982 Westfalia
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> From: Ken Lewis <kdlewis@JUNO.COM>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Fuel lines, check them often.
> >>>
> >>> http://www.vintagebus.com/gallery/image-
> >>> /10-
> >>> 629.JPG
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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> >> Robert 1982 Westfalia 1987 Wolfsburg
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