Of course, if you did that, it would be under the van, requiring one to
crawl under there or to put it on a lift to get at it.  I'm no engineer,
but I don't see why it wouldn't work.  It would just require getting down
there to take a look periodically.  I would hope if you did it, the seal
would be something easier to use than the extremely thin o-ring on my lawn
mower.  Old hands and eyes find it very difficult to fit back without
getting it crooked so it won't seal.

On Sun, Sep 8, 2019 at 8:16 AM Dan N <dn92610@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> > >>
> >
>