It maybe one that has two sizes on, different on each end ...
Zoltan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hans Achter" <hansachter@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 2:49 PM
Subject: Re: Gypsy is gone...

> Good!  Then can you or someone tell me what size fuel line my syncro needs
> for the short line
> between the tank and the pump?  I asked once before and got only one
> answer and it was wrong.  They
> said ETKA showed a 5mm line but it's obviously much larger.
> Hans
> 87 syncro vanaru
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Darren Lastfogel" <dlastfogel@PLYFORMS.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 3:31 PM
> Subject: Re: Gypsy is gone...
>
>
>> I volenteer to be the chair person to lead the (replace your fuel line
>> cause)lets unite.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Detroit Bus [mailto:detroit.bus@GMAIL.COM]
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 2:23 PM
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> Subject: Re: Gypsy is gone...
>>
>>
>> Perhaps the "best" possible response to Deb's sad misfortune would be
>> the upgrading and replacement of fuel lines on old VWs all over the
>> world during the next several weeks. We could make this a joint effort
>> of sorts. Obviously there are other factors that cause vehicle fires
>> but as Ben convincingly states fuel line problems are the primary
>> instigator. (Can't wait to visit your shop next time I drive up to
>> Montreal, looks fun!)
>>
>> Last month I bought several meters of the correct high-pressure fuel
>> line and FI clamps from one of the list's vendor members, and have
>> been planning to retrofit my new Vanagon right after New Year's after
>> all the holiday obligations have ended, and while I have access to a
>> garage in Michigan (assuming I make the 700 mile journey from NYC to
>> Detroit without event!) In the past the *very* first thing I did to
>> any of my air-cooleds was to replace the fuel lines and clamps, even
>> before changing the oil. As no doubt hundreds of people on this list
>> will attest, there is scarcely a more miserable experience than
>> watching an engine fire devour months or years of work and care. My
>> brother once lost a fine Beetle convertible like this, just an hour
>> before he was supposed to finalize its sale for several thousand
>> dollars--in fact he was driving it to the new owner's house! The next
>> day he sold it to a junkyard for $50 (this was a while back...).
>>
>> Anyway, if anyone else has been planning to re-do the fuel lines on
>> their VW, perhaps we could all do this at the same time, say the
>> weekend of Jan 1-2, after you sleep off that hangover? That way if
>> anyone has questions or problems (I myself have never done this on a
>> Vanagon engine) there will be a lot of combined activity concentrated
>> on the same job simultaneously; as they say two heads (or fifty) are
>> better than one. For instance, I'm sorry to say that my fuel line
>> clamps look like little crusty brown barnacles so I'm already
>> anticipating some issues with removal, it would be great if I could
>> talk to someone who had encountered the same problem just minutes
>> before while every little detail is fresh in their head. Maybe we
>> could even spread this effort to other VW lists (vintage buses,
>> beetles, etc.) and make it a one weekend fuel line mass effort?
>>
>> This also gives anyone who wants to participate a week or two to order
>> and receive the correct hoses and parts (don't just use cheapo hose
>> clamps!!). If we get even ten or twenty classic VW's outfitted with
>> new fuel lines that weekend, it will be a great tribute to Deb's lost
>> Vanagon, and almost surely prevent a disaster somewhere.
>>
>> Any interest? I'll post again in January when I am in a dry garage
>> looking down at that first fuel injector...
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Garrick in Queens, NY
>> '87 GL Weekender
>>
>> *****
>> With fond remembrances of:
>> '77 Beetle
>> '67 Bus
>> '59 Pickup sn# 460440
>> '67 Beetle
>> '76 Camper Bus
>>