Ok, Scott and David, I'll check this out.  But I think mine must have had that simply run without that connection at some point in time.  What is the reason for it?  Why would there be a short piece of hose running from the firewall fitting, then a connection to a longer piece of hose?  But since you guys say it is that way, it must have been at one time.  I'll double and triple check.

mcneely

---- Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM> wrote:
> On the 'other side' of the firewall  from the engine compartment,
> where your metal firewall fitting is ..
> on that back side, if it's like all other vanagons I've seen, there is a
> short hose, about 2 inches long.
> At the forward end of that hose, where it is clamped by a crimp type
> small hose clamp originally,
> that is The Spot that leaks.
>    If there is a screw type hose clamp there it's probably ok.
> if original crimp type...that's where they leak.
>
> Scott
> www.turbovans.com
>
> On 6/26/2012 6:57 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
> > "Mine is done with a grommet and a direct fuel hose, no connections
> > > at all at that position."  mcneely
> >
> > "Get underneath and look a little farther forward...that's the third
> > connection Stuart is talking about, direct hose to hose." Beirel
> >
> > Wait, what? I found no plastic fitting in the forward firewall on my
> > '84, finding instead a metal fitting there. One hose from the front
> > connects to the forward side, another to the engine side. Been under the
> > van several times (despite not enjoying it at all) and have seen no
> > other breaks in the fuel line. Pls to show the "[...] little farther
> > forward [...[] third connection" in Ye Bentleye?
> >
> > --
> > Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
> > 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
> > Bend, Ore.
> >

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David McNeely