>At 07:27 AM 2/2/2005 -0800, you wrote:
>>My Vanagon, 85 1.9l Automatic California, has a small diameter hose
>>running from the fuel tank, meeting a plastic adapter which connects
>>to a larger diameter fuel hose which runs to the fuel pump.
>>
>>This plastic piece has cracked and started leaking gas.    I called a
>>VW parts counter and they couldn't figure it what I was talking about.
>>
>>Does anyone know the part #?  Or perhaps where to find a replacement
>>part that is metal?
>
>On a stock '85 (like mine) that's where the fuel filter goes. This
>is a small square plastic filter with different sized inlets and
>outlets. Putting one of these in will fix your leak.
>
>Later vans (I think '86 onward) use a larger metal canister filter
>*after* the fuel pump... Either your van has been retrofitted to the
>later style filter, or you have no filter at all.
>
>Tim

Strange.  On my 85, there is a small hose (5mm?) from the tank to the
adapter, a large diameter hose to the fuel pump, than a large
diameter hose to a big round metal fuel filter.  No square plastic
filter in the system at all.

Sounds like I have some sort of hybrid.

Question: Does the small plastic fuel filter have a small hose
adapter (5mm?) on one side and the larger size (7mm?) on the other
end?