When I installed 7 mm ID fuel injection hose to transition (repair) the
black nylon hose at roll over valves at expansion tank, it seemed to me
that the OD of that new hose might mispositiion the valv (force it away
from the grommet a little) when installing the tank, or, make install of
the expansion tank a little more difficult. I'd installed the new hose too
close to the valve.

Just a WAG theory.

Be careful not to pinch the OEM black hose between tank and frame at
passenger side.

What I'd suggest is to use the OEM black nylon line at roll over valves
than inter face fuel hose further down from there to rest of evap system.
Like after the T.  A heat gun might help expand the black hose to allow it
to more easily fit onto the rol over valve nipple if you need to repair
hose at valve.  It doesn't take much heat to do this.

I harvested that black hose off a parts vanagon.

Neil

On Saturday, June 4, 2016, Further <sdonahue@furtherinteractions.com> wrote:

......Is there any disadvantage to eliminating the Hard lines.....

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
> Of Further
> Sent: Sunday, June 5, 2016 1:04 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Gas tank hard plastic line replacements ?
>
> Hey all, I started to do a reseal on my '85 Vanagon gas tank and found
> that several of the hard plastic lines that run from the
> evaporation/overflow tanks are crimped to the point of needing
> replaced.
>
>
>

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