I have looked at that drawing before, but as Keith noted there is no attachement for this hose and any of the Syncros I have see had this hose in the frame, they were all 87s and on, and never had any changes to the fuel vent system as far as I could tell. This question should go over to the Syncro group so I added them.

Dave

----- Original Message ----
From: Keith Ovregaard <kovregaard@COMCAST.NET>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 9:10:43 PM
Subject: Re: Fuel Tank Weirdness

Well, that's interesting, Jeff. Looks like a different air cleaner
box. Mine is oval and has no hose barb for vent hose attachment. That
Ekta page shows model years 85-92, but below the illustration it says
syncro 85-86, so maybe the earlier models had the vent hose connected
to the air cleaner.

On Mar 17, 2008, at 5:39 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> Date:    Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:09:45 -0700
> From:    VW Doka <vw.doka@GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: Fuel Tank Weirdness
>
> Keith,
>
> No charcoal cannisters should vent to the atmoshpere (that is bad).
> They
> should always be recirculated back into the intake.  Even '70s era
> VW bugs
> had a closed system for the charcoal cannister.  Syncros are no
> exception.
>
> This diagram from ETKA shows the proper routing for the syncro:
>
> http://www.autostadtwest.com/docs/033-02.pdf
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff

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