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
>