I have a '91 GL 2WD, and when I recently replaced my VW canister with a
Subie one during my engine conversion I found a hose from the canister going
into a grommet in the frame.

Larry A.

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Dave Mari <vw4x41987@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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