Thanks for the heads up on the sand in the expansion tanks.  I have done
the Wilfy kit for the expansion tanks within the past 3 years, so I should
be okay there.  Even at that time as I looked into the bottom of the tank,
I saw no rust or sediment when the tank was out.

Max

  At 05:34 PM 6/10/2005, jimt wrote:
>Highly recommend an inspection of those seals.  Not hard to do.  The hard
>part is finding the screws under the undercoating if your wells had the
>factory undercoating.  After constant problems with clogged filters I
>checked mine after a suggestion.  I found one had rotted out completely with
>shreds down in the jug.  The other was rotted enough that it fell apart as I
>was looking at it.  Both jugs were full of crap.  I thoroughly cleaned them
>and flushed the lines going to the tank from them.
>
>Be very careful though.  Before I did the check I pulled the jugs off of my
>spare van and on one the nipple at the bottom snapped off.  Very brittle
>from age.
>jimt
>
>On 6/10/05 3:40 PM, "Roger Sisler" <rogersisler2000@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
>
> > You may want to check the rubber seals that go to the expansion tanks. They
> > are on each side of the front wheel wells. What happens is that sand is
> > thrown up by the wheels and it gets into the gas tank through the torn
> > seals.This is a VW dealer partX2=$5.00.
> >
> >