In a message dated 15/05/2008 10:05:34 A.M. Central Standard Time,
LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM writes:

I can  add more anecdotal evidence. After putting in a new bosch pump,
it still  was noisy. So I ran an new input line into a gas can and the
noise went  away....and I filled my gas tank at the same time. It pumps
it back into  the tank fairly quickly. A new gas tank fixed the  issue.

OK,  folks, one more time just to fill up the archives !    The OEM  gas
tanks have a problem and it cannot be repaired.  When they become  blocked and
restrict the flow of gas to the pump the pump will starve for  fuel.  When the
pump is starved for fuel it whines because the lubrication  of the ball bearings
in side is the FUEL !  Those gas tanks have a screen  filter housed inside a
sealed metal box at the bottom of the tank.  The  outlet and return lines to
that box inside the tank are made of RUBBER or some  similar product, that
after all these years is disintegrating.   So..... you cannot replace those rubber
lines and you cannot clean that  screen.  UNLESS you cut the tank open and go
in that way, then weld the  tank back together, as was done by a friend in
Mexico as there was no  choice other than wait for very long time to have a new
tank shipped down there  !  ALL Vanagons will eventually have this problem
sometime in their  life.  Now, this story is in the archives one more time !

Cheers,

Frank  Condelli
Almonte, Ontario, Canada
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