I just look at our Kubota tractor it has the fuel bowl too... it's very
very dirty looking like brown mold on it... I have to clean... my Syncro
Doka 1.9Tdi has one too.

so now I wonder is there any benefit to retrofit one in a gas engine
vanagon...ie. insert it before the fuel pump...

dan

On Sun, Sep 8, 2019 at 7:50 AM Roy Nicholl <RNicholl@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:

> Many of the marine diesel we had in our boats when I was a kid had glass
> water separators
>
> > On 07-Sep-2019, at 17:53, David McNeely <davmcneely40@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > Weren't such bowls usual on engines with a carburetor back in the day?
> > Certainly it seems like all the ones I had anything to do with when I was
> > first starting out with cars had them, including 1950s Chevrolets, Fords,
> > Ramblers, 1960s Fords, Dodges.  Maybe some of them were metal rather than
> > glass, but most if not all had them.  I think even my father's early 50s
> > Packard had that device.  They were dome shaped, or half-spherical, and
> > held by a metal clip like the bail on an old fashioned canning jar
> > (lightening jar).  Small engines like on lawn mowers often have them even
> > today.  I know I have a Cub Cadet mower that does (metal), and I have to
> > empty it periodically or the carburetor will foul.
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 11:21 AM Dan N <dn92610@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> just throw in another idea...
> >> I remember having seen this device on my Dad's Renault car (it was long
> >> ago)... the fuel line goes from the tank to a glass jar then to the fuel
> >> pump then to the carb. Time to time my Dad unclip the glass jar and
> clean
> >> when he sees some dirt/water in there at the bottom of jar..
> >>
> >> dan
> >>
>