It turns out the ones I have are type 2....I've got 5 of them!

Jay

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Mark A Kippert <vanagon@kippert.com> wrote:

> Glad I caught this thread. I noticed my gas cap missing from my '86 a
> couple weeks ago (currently not roadworthy due to falling off exhaust so
> it's been parked since late December). I mean, who the heck would bother
> walking up the drive next to my house just to swipe the gas cap? Sadly my
> next thought was 'another Vanagon owner'. And here I thought ALL Vanagon
> owners were trustworthy by default. Oh well...I guess every family has it's
> black sheep.
>
> Mark K
> 1986 GL/2WD/4SPD
> 1990 Carat/2WD/Auto
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> On Feb 19, 2011, at 4:30 PM, Mike S wrote:
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> > I discovered this while picking up some bargains at rockauto.com. They
> > had a Stant 11808 "fuel pump cap" listed on "wholesaler closeout" for
> > $3.41. I figured that might be a weird description for a gas cap, and I
> > was right. The Stant cap was actually the VW OEM one mentioned above,
> > in Stant packaging. Stant probably made them for VW (marked Made in the
> > USA!), because the Westmoreland plant was making Rabbits at the time.
> >
> > It looks like they still have at least 1, if you do a part number
> > search for 11808. Down to $3.39 now.
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